The University of Mississippi
School of Law
Lamar Law Center, 5th Floor
P.O. Box 1848
University, MS 38677

Phone: (662) 915-6858
Fax: (662) 915-6842

E-mail: psecunda@olemiss.edu

Publications

Curriculum Vitae

Professor Secunda joined The University of Mississippi School of Law Faculty in the summer of 2002.  He teaches employment law, employment discrimination law, employee benefits, labor law, civil procedure, school law, higher education law, and special education law.

Professor Secunda's recent articles appear in the UCLA Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, Colorado Law Review, U.C. Davis Law Review, Florida State University Law Review, Villanova Law Review, Kentucky Law Review, Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy, and the Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal.   He is also the author, along with Professors Rick Bales and Jeff Hirsch, of the treatise, Understanding Employment Law, along with Sam Estreicher, of the forthcoming case book, Global Issues in Employee Benefits Law, and of the forthcoming Teacher’s Manual to Cox, Bok, Gorman & Finkin’s Labor Law: Cases and Materials.

His legal scholarship primarily focuses on the civil liberties and civil rights of employees, with a focus on public employee speech, privacy, and associational issues. He has also written on innovative remedial approaches to group employment discrimination claims and the dynamics of administrative agency adjudication in the labor law context. His current project concerns the lack of employee benefit protection for employee participants under ERISA’s remedial and preemption scheme.

Professor Secunda is the current national Chair-Elect of the AALS Section on Labor Relations and Employment Law, the immediate past chair of the AALS Section on Employment Discrimination Law, and the Secretary of the AALS Section on Employee Benefits.

He co-edits with Rick Bales and Jeffrey Hirsch the Workplace Prof Blog (http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog), which is part of the Law Professors Blog Network. He moderates the empdiscr listserv, the AALS-sponsored email discussion group of employment discrimination law professors in the United States. Professor Secunda is also a Research Fellow at the NYU School of Law's Center for Labor and Employment Law.

Professor Secunda serves as a special education mediator for the State of Mississippi's Office of Special Education and as a public arbitrator for FINRA. He is also a frequent commentator on labor and employment law issues in the national media and has written columns for the National Law Journal and Legal Times.
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J.D., Magna Cum Laude, Georgetown University
A.B., Cum Laude, Harvard College