Nicole Buonocore Porter is a Professor of Law and Director of the Martin H. Malin Institute for Law and the Workplace. Before joining Chicago-Kent in 2022, she was a Distinguished University Professor; Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development; and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Toledo College of Law. She has also taught at Saint Louis University School of Law, the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, and the University of Iowa College of Law.
Professor Porter earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and the Editor-in-Chief of the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. After law school, Professor Porter was in-house counsel for a manufacturing company and practiced employment law in a large law firm in Detroit. She also clerked for the Honorable James L. Ryan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Professor Porter is on the executive committee of the Labor Law Group, an invitation-only organization of law professors dedicated to producing quality scholarship and teaching materials on labor and employment law. A nationally-known expert in employment discrimination and disability law, she is the author or co-author of four books and over 40 law review articles and essays. Her forthcoming book, THE WORKPLACE REIMAGINED: ACCOMMODATING OUR BODIES AND OUR LIVES, will be published by Cambridge University Press. Recent prominent articles include Disclaiming Disability, 55 UC Davis L. Rev. 1859 (2022) and #MeToo and the Process That’s Due: Sexual Misconduct Where We Live, Work, and Learn, 2022 U. ILL. L. REV. 663.
In 2022, Porter was elected as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation; in 2021, she was elected as a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers; and in 2020, she was the recipient of the Paul Steven Miller Memorial Award for “outstanding academic and public contributions to the field of labor and employment law scholarship.”
Education
J.D., University of Michigan Law School
B.A., Michigan State University
Publications
#MeToo and the Process That’s Due: Sexual Misconduct Where We Live, Work, and Learn, 2022 U. ILL. L. REV. 663.
Disclaiming Disability, 55 UC DAVIS L. REV. 1859 (2022).
Relationships and Retaliation in the #MeToo Era, 72 FLA. L. REV. 797 (2020).
Accommodating Everyone, 47 SETON HALL L. REV. 85 (2016).
Mutual Marginalization: Individuals with Disabilities and Workers with Caregiving Responsibilities, 66 FLA. L. REV. 1099 (2014).
Martinizing Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 47 GA. L. REV. 527 (2013).
Books
THE WORKPLACE REIMAGINED: ACCOMMODATING OUR BODIES AND OUR LIVES (Cambridge Univ. Press), forthcoming 2022.
FEMINIST JUDGMENTS: REWRITTEN EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION OPINIONS (Cambridge Univ. Press 2020), with Ann McGinley (UNLV).
EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS ON EQUALITY IN THE WORKPLACE (West Academic, 10th Edition), with Maria L. Ontiveros, Roberto L. Corrada, Michael Selmi,and Marcia McCormick.
Executive Editor, ABA- BNA EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION TREATISE, 6th Ed. (2020) (and 7th edition forthcoming 2022).
DISABILITY LAW, CASES AND MATERIALS (West Academic, 2017), with Stephen Befort (Minnesota), 2nd edition, 2021.
Selected Media Appearances
Quoted in Edward Segal, Walmart is Sued for Gender and Race Discrimination by EEOC, FORBES, Feb. 11, 2022.
Quoted in Jennifer Kay, Last Equal-Pay Holdout Debates Treating Men and Women the Same, BLOOMBERG LAW, Feb. 11, 2022.
Op-Ed, What Does Andrew Cuomo’s Resignation Mean for #MeToo?, The Hill, Aug. 24, 2021.
Quoted in Robert Iafolla & Louis C. LaBrecque, Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates at Work Promise Employer Headaches, Bloomberg Law News, Nov. 2, 2020.
Quoted and cited in Patrick Dorrian & Robert Iafolla, Separate Adverse Action Not Needed for ADA Accommodation Claim, Bloomberg Daily Labor Report, Oct. 29, 2020.
Quoted in Patrick Dorrian & Robert Iafolla, Asthmatic Worker Gets Covid-Related Telework Order, For Now, Bloomberg Law Daily Labor Report, Sept. 17, 2020
Quoted and cited in Robert Iafolla, 6th Circuit Weighs Broader Disability Definition of ADA Amendments, Bloomberg Law Daily Labor Report, Jan. 28, 2020
Quoted in several news outlets, Many Say #MeToo is Bigger than Harvey Weinstein, Trial Outcome Doesn’t Matter, Jan. 13, 2020.
Quoted by the Toledo Blade, UT Program Addresses #MeToo and the Law, February 2019.
Interviewed regarding sexual assault panel at the University of Toledo College of Law, NBC24, November 2018.
Interviewed regarding sexual harassment and the #metoo movement: NBC 24 (Toledo), November 30, 2017; 13 ABC (Toledo), November 29, 2017; 13 ABC (Toledo), November 22, 2017
Quoted in Matt Cullen, GW Seeks dismissal of sex discrimination charges in athletic department, THE GW HATCHET, November 13, 2017.
Quoted in Jon Steingart, Schools’ Use of Salary History in Setting Pay to Get Second Look, BLOOMBERG LAW, August 30, 2017.
Nicole Buonocore Porter, Room for Debate, Salary Negotiations Often Preclude Women from Equal Pay, N.Y. TIMES, August 15, 2016.
Porter’s article, Women, Unions, and Negotiation quoted in Jonathan Timm, A Labor Movement That’s More About Women, THE ATLANTIC, August 25, 2016.
Quoted in Rebekah Mintzer, States Look to Give Teeth to National Pay Equity Legislation, THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL, October 24, 2016.