Professor Nguyen's Latest Scholarship Concerns COVID-19 and #MeToo
08/06/2020
Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen’s recent work will be published by law reviews at New York University and the University of California Berkeley. The pieces relate to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the #MeToo movement.
“Contract Impossibility: From Spanish Influenza of 1918 to COVID-19 Pandemic,” will be published by the Annual Survey of American Law at NYU School of Law.
“#MeToo Innovators: Disrupting the Race and Gender Code by Asian-Americans in the Tech Industry,” will be published by Berkeley Law’s Asian American Law Journal.
In the #MeToo piece, Professor Nguyen examines the means by which Asian American women are disrupting norms in the tech industry that keep them from competing successfully with their male and white female peers.
A late 2019 article by Professor Nguyen also explores #MeToo innovators. The article, “Disrupting Adhesion Contracts with #MeToo Innovators,” was published by the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law. Just as innovators are known for disrupting old business models through technological innovations, #MeToo reformers are disrupting the seemingly insurmountable adhesion contract regime. Their efforts have led to businesses removing their arbitration clauses, as these pioneers regain their rights without relying on the conventional contract theory of unconscionability.
Professor Nguyen holds the Gerald L. Bepko Chair in Law, and is the director of the IU McKinney Center for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation. She frequently travels to Vietnam and other countries to present her scholarship and to train government officials. She is an internationally recognized legal scholar, known for her expertise at the intersections of intellectual property, secured transactions, bankruptcy, licensing, and taxation. She was named a Fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers in March 2017.
