Lea B. Vaughn

Professor Emeritus of Law

Contact

Email: lvaughn@u.washington.edu

Education

A.B. 1975, Princeton University J.D. 1978, University of Michigan

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Expertise

Administrative Law — Civil Litigation and Procedure — Labor and Employment Law — Legislative Process

Selected Publications

Lea B. Vaughn, Feeling at Home: Learning, Law, Cognitive Science, and Narrative, 43 McGeorge L. Rev. 99-1030 (2012).
Lea B. Vaughn, A Few Inconvenient Truths about Michael Crichton’s State of Fear: Lawyers, Causes and Science, 20 Seton Hall. J. Sports & Ent. L. 49-84 (2010).
Lea B. Vaughn, Thick Skin -- Serving Uncle Samuel and the Clinton White House, 49 Wayne L. Rev.773-90 (2003) (reviewing William B. Gould, Labored Relations: Law, Politics and the NLRB (2000)).

See the full list under the Publications tab below.

Biography
Publications
Presentations

Professor Vaughn, a native of Seattle, came to the University of Washington in 1984. Her teaching and research focuses on employment relations (labor law, employment discrimination, employment law) and procedural courses such as civil procedure, administrative law and legislation.

In recent years, she has also developed a growing expertise in law and neuroscience, and particularly how recent scientific developments relate to the abusive workplace as well as forms of decision-making. Prior to her career in education, she practiced labor law representing unions.

In Michigan, she was chair of the Michigan Teacher Tenure Commission. Professor Vaughn was awarded the Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellowship at the end of her third year of law school.

At UW, she was appointed by the university president to serve as Secretary of the Faculty for all three UW campuses from 1999-2005. In that position, she had oversight of the university-wide faculty governance structure, the faculty grievance procedures and the University Handbook. She is a member of the Michigan bar.

Peer Reviewed Journals & Law Reviews

Lea B. Vaughn, Feeling at Home: Learning, Law, Cognitive Science, and Narrative, 43 McGeorge L. Rev. 99-1030 (2012).
Lea B. Vaughn, A Few Inconvenient Truths about Michael Crichton’s State of Fear: Lawyers, Causes and Science, 20 Seton Hall. J. Sports & Ent. L. 49-84 (2010).
Lea B. Vaughn, The Customer Is Always Right . . . Not!: Employer Liability for Third Party Sexual Harassment, 9 Mich. J. Gender & L. 1-90 (2002).
Lea B. Vaughn, Victimized Twice -- The Intersection of Domestic Violence and the Workplace: Legal Reform Through Curriculum Development, 47 Loy. L. Rev. 231-53 (2001).
Lea B. Vaughn, Integrating Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) into the Curriculum at the University of Washington School of Law: A Report and Reflections, 50 Fla. L. Rev. 679-707 (1998).
Mary Whisner & Lea Vaughn, Teaching Legal Research and Writing in Upper-Division Courses: A Retrospective from Two Perspectives, 4 Persp.: Teaching Legal Res. & Writing 72-77 (1996), reprinted in Best of Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research & Writing 17-22 (2001).
Lea B. Vaughn, Article XX of the AFL-CIO Constitution: Managing and Resolving Inter-Union Disputes, 37 Wayne L. Rev. 1-87 (1990).
Lea B. Vaughn, A Need for Clarity: Toward a New Standard for Preliminary Injunctions, 68 Or. L. Rev. 839-84 (1990).

Book Chapters

Lea B. Vaughn, Washington, in 2 Civil Rights in the United States 781-83 (Waldo E. Martin, Jr. & Patricia Sullivan eds., Macmillan Reference USA 2000).

Book Reviews

Lea B. Vaughn, The Past as Prologue, 67 J. Legal Educ. 354-72 (2017) (reviewing Susanna L. Blumenthal, Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture (2016)).
Lea B. Vaughn, Thick Skin -- Serving Uncle Samuel and the Clinton White House, 49 Wayne L. Rev.773-90 (2003) (reviewing William B. Gould, Labored Relations: Law, Politics and the NLRB (2000)).
Lea B. Vaughn, The Rooster's Egg: On the Persistence of Prejudice, 18 Women & Pol., no. 4, 1998, at 102-03 (book review).

Professional Publications

Lea B. Vaughn, Employer Liability for Customer and Client Harassment: Unremedied No Longer, Trial News (Wash. St. Trial Lawyers Ass’n), June 2000, at 17.

Speaker, "In Denial: "Brain Rules," Legal Norms and the Abusive Workplace", Eleventh Annual Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law, (September 23, 2016)
Moderator, "Hot Topics in Labor Law", Pacific Coast Labor & Employment Law Conference, (May 19, 2016)
Speaker, "Fail Forward", Resiliency Lab, University of Washington College of Undergraduate Education (May 4, 2016)
Speaker, "Cannabis and Employment Law", University of Washington School of Law (April 26, 2016)
Discussant, "Conference on Narrative and Metaphor in the Law", Symposia on the Role of Metaphor in Academic Disciplines, Stanford University Law School (January 1, 2016)
Speaker, "The Abusive Workplace and Chronic Stress", Annual Meeting, Employers’ Counsel Network (May 1, 2015)
Speaker, "The Abusive Workplace and Chronic Stress", Annual Meeting, Employers Counsel Network (April 1, 2015)
Speaker, "Psychological Science and Appellate Practice", King County Bar Association, Appellate Section (February 11, 2013)
Speaker, "Feeling at Home: Narrative, Law, Cognition and Evolution", 13th Annual Conference, Society for Evolutionary Analysis in the Law (April 20, 2012)
Speaker, "In Denial: “Brain Rules,” Legal Norms and the Abusive Workplace", 13th Annual Conference, Society for Evolutionary Analysis and the Law (April 20, 2012)
Moderator, "Get Off My Land! The Conflict Between Property Rights and Protected Activities under the National Labor Relations Act", 5th Annual Section of Labor and Employment Law Conference, American Bar Association (November 3, 2011)
Speaker, "Difficult Issues in the Classroom", Pre-tenure Faculty of Color Workshop, Association of American Law Schools (June 26, 2011)
Panelist, Pretenured Faculty of Color Workshop, Association of American Law Schools (June 25, 2011)
"Looking Forward--Looking Backward: Employment Law Trends", 9th Annual CLE Conference, Washington State Bar Association, Section on Labor & Employment Law (April 30, 2010)
"In Denial: “Brain Rules,” Legal Norms and the Abusive Workplace", Workplace Bullying and Protection against Discrimination in the Employer-Employee Relationship: Chances and Risks in an International Comparison, University of Augsburg (April 17, 2010)