Miriam A. Cherry
Associate Professor of Law
B.A., Dartmouth College, summa cum laude
J.D., Harvard Law School, cum laude
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Professor Cherry’s scholarship favors an interdisciplinary approach, with a concentration on business and employment law topics. Her articles have been or will be published in Northwestern Law Review, Illinois Law Review, Washington Law Review, UC Davis Law Review, Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law, and Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, among others. She began teaching at Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law before joining the faculty at Pacific McGeorge. After graduation from law school, Professor Cherry clerked for Justice Roderick Ireland of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and then for Judge Gerald Heaney of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. In 2001, a transition to the private sector took Professor Cherry to the Boston firm of Foley Hoag LLP, where she practiced corporate law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private debt financing. She was also associated with Berman, DeValerio & Pease where she was involved in litigating several accounting fraud cases including those against former telecom giant WorldCom and Symbol Technologies, which resulted in a $139 million settlement.
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Courses: Business Associations | Contracts | Employment Law
Recent Publications:
Books:
Global Issues in Employment Law (2008) (with Samuel Estreicher) (part of Thomson-West Global Issues Series).
Understanding Mergers and Acquisitions (with Franklin A. Gevurtz) (part of Lexis Understanding Series) (forthcoming, 2009).
Law Review Articles:
Prediction Markets and the First Amendment, 2008 Illinois L. Rev. 833 (2008) (with Robert L. Rogers).
Essay, Employment and Labor Law Lawyer as Public Intellectual (invited symposium contribution to appear in the Suffolk L. Rev.) (forthcoming).
Essay, Exploring (Social) Class in the Classroom: The Case of Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, 28 Pace L. Rev. 235 (2008) (invited symposium contribution).
Tiresias and the Justices: Using Information Markets to Predict Supreme Court Decisions, 100 Northwestern University L. Rev. 1141 (2006) (with Robert L. Rogers).
Markets for Markets: Origins and Subjects of Information Markets 58 Rutgers L. Rev. 339 (2006) (with Robert L. Rogers).
Decentering the Corporation: Using the Limited Liability Company to Organize Low Wage Immigrant Workers, 39 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 787 (2006) (invited symposium contribution).
Whistling in the Dark? Corporate Fraud, Whistleblowers, and the Implications of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for Employment Law, 79 Washington L. Rev. 1029 (2004).
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Cases): Gender Stereotypes and Sexual Harassment Since the Passage of Title VII, 22 Hofstra Labor & Employment L. J. 533 (2005) (invited symposium contribution).
A Tyrannosaurus-Rex Aptly Named “Sue”: Using a Disputed Dinosaur to Teach Contract Defenses , 82 North Dakota L. Rev. 295 (2005).
Exercising the Right to Public Accommodations: The Debate Over Single-Sex Health Clubs , 52 Maine Law Review 97 (2000).
Case Comment, A Negotiation Approach to Mandatory Arbitration Contracts , 4 Harvard Negotiation L. Rev. 269 (1999).
Note, Not-So-Arbitrary Arbitration: Using Title VII Disparate Impact Analysis to Invalidate Employment Contracts That Discriminate , 21 Harvard Women’s L. J. 267 (1998).
Shorter Work:
Book Review of Jeffrey Brandon Morris’s Establishing Justice in Middle America: A History of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Law & History Rev. (forthcoming).
A Satire of Law Firm Employment Practices (Book Review of Jeremy Blachman’s Anonymous Lawyer), 20 Georgetown J. Legal Ethics, 1137 (2007).
No Longer Just Company Men: The Flexible Workforce and Employment Discrimination (Book Review of Katherine V.W. Stone’s From Widgets to Digits), 27 Berkeley J. Lab. & Emp. L. 209 (2006).
Images of Women Workers in Film , 10 Employee Rights & Employment Policy J. 295 (2006) (published remarks, American Association of Law Schools conference).
Reality at Work , Legal Times, Oct. 31, 2005 (reprinted as Losing Out by Not Fitting in: What Do Martha, Donald, and the Apprentice Really Tell Us, Conn. L. Trib., Nov. 14, 2005).
Call the Foul Against Title IX: To Defeat Gender Discrimination, High Court Should Let Whistleblowers Sue for Retaliation , Legal Times, November 29, 2004.
The Five Stages of Law Review Submission (with Brannon P. Denning) (unpublished satire, available on SSRN).
Works in Progress:
Virtual Work
Melodrama and the Tale of the Whistleblower
Edith Wharton and the Changing Law of Divorce, 1890 to 1920
