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UH LAW CENTER PROFESSOR ROBERTS’ RESEARCH FEATURED ON

ACCLAIMED PEER-REVIEW WEBSITE

niversity of Houston Law Center Professor Jessica Roberts’ article, Roberts is the Director of
U“GINA, Big Data, and the Future of Employee Privacy,” which was the Health Law & Policy
featured in the Yale Law Journal, was reviewed on the scholarship Institute and the Leonard H.
website JOTWELL. University of Tennessee College of Law Associate Childs Professor of Law. Her
Professor Bradley Areheart co-wrote the article with Roberts. scholarship has been featured
The focus of the article is how the Genetic Information three times on JOTWELL, a
Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) offers a blueprint for preventing journal centered on reviews of
employers from breaching employee privacy. It was reviewed by St. scholarship relevant to law.
Louis School of Law Professor Matt Bodie. Bodie’s review marks the 15th
“Areheart and Roberts have staked a claim for GINA as a model instance a member of the Law
for how employee privacy might be protected in other areas of Center faculty was highlighted
their lives,” Bodie wrote in his review. “Their article is a terrific in JOTWELL. ^
contribution to our understanding of the future of employment.”
In the piece, Bodie noted that Roberts and Areheart examined federal Jessica Roberts is the
courts during the statute’s first decade, unearthing 48 unique GINA Leonard H. Childs Chair
in Law and Director of
cases, 26 of which involved terminations. However, in most cases, the Health Law & Policy
gaffes such as voluntarily disclosing genetic information or an inability Institute at the University
to prove the employer possessed genetic information cost the plaintiffs of Houston Law Center.
their case.

UH LAW CENTER ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR KAUFMAN NAMED LIFE

MEMBER OF PROMINENT INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS THINK TANK

niversity of Houston Law Center Associate Professor of Law member of the Council on Foreign Relations,” added Dean Leonard
Uand Political Science Zachary D. Kaufman was elected as a Life M. Baynes. “It is a well-deserved honor. Professor Kaufman is an
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). exceptional scholar in the areas of criminal and international law. In
“I am honored, thrilled, and the two years that he has taught at the Law Center, he has written
grateful that the Council compelling law review articles in top law reviews. He also has been an
on Foreign Relations has extraordinary law school teacher who is beloved by his students.”
elected me as a Life Member,” Founded in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations is an independent,
Kaufman said. “As the world nonpartisan think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and
faces so many international international affairs. According to CFR, “individual members include
challenges, from genocide and many of the most prominent leaders in international affairs who
inequality to COVID-19 and come together to engage in nonpartisan conversation on the most
climate change, I look forward salient policy and governance issues of the day.”
to contributing to CFR and Kaufman’s previous roles with CFR include his time as a Term
exchanging ideas with my Member from 2013 to 2018 and as an International Affairs Fellow on
distinguished colleagues.” the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff from 2016 to 2017.
“I am very proud of Professor Kaufman joined the Law Center’s faculty in 2019. He teaches
Kaufman’s election as a life Criminal Law, International Law, and International Justice and

Atrocities. ^
University of Houston Law Center Associate Professor Zachary
D. Kaufman, the co-director of the Criminal Justice Institute.

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