Ann C. Hodges
Professor of Law
Labor Law
Labor Relations and Disputes
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Employment Discrimination
Americans with Disabilities Act
Sexual Harassment
Employment Law
Nonprofit Organizations
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Professor Hodges’ teaching and research interests focus on labor and employment law, feminist legal theory and nonprofit organizations. Her recent scholarly publications explore public sector labor and employment law, the intersections of labor and employment law, alternative dispute resolution, and workplace privacy. Her articles have appeared in the Georgia Law Review, the Wake Forest Law Review, the Boston College Law Review, the International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations and elsewhere. She has also published several book chapters and co-authored two books, Principles of Employment Law and Public Sector Employment:  Cases and Materials. Professor Hodges has made numerous professional presentations to academics, practitioners in labor and employment relations, nonprofit organizations, health care professionals, and cancer patients and their families. As a result of her own experience with cancer, Professor Hodges co-founded the Legal Information Network for Cancer (LINC), a nonprofit organization in Central Virginia which assists cancer patients and their families with the legal and financial problems that often accompany cancer. Prior to joining the faculty, she practiced labor and employment law with the Chicago law firm of Katz, Friedman, Schur & Eagle. She worked as a field examiner at the National Labor Relations Board, Region 33, prior to attending law school.

Courses Taught: Labor Law; Employment Discrimination; Employment Law; ADR in the Workplace; Constitutional and Statutory Law of Public Employment; Feminist Legal Theory; Nonprofit Organizations
Publications
Books
Principles of Employment Law (ThomsonWest 2009) (with Rafael Gely, Peggie Smith and Susan Stabile)
Articles
Avoiding Legal Seduction: Reinvigorating the Labor Movement to Balance Corporate Power, 94 Marq. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2011)
The Electronic Workplace, 12 Emp. Rts. & Emp. Pol’y J. 1 (2008) (with L. Camille Hebert)

Pending Cases at the NLRB: The Implications for Employers and Unions, Views and Visions, pp. 14-17, Winter 2007

The Limits of Multiple Rights and Remedies: A Call for Revisiting the Law of the Workplace, in Discrimination At Workplace: A Critical Study (The Icfai University Press, 2007) (reprinted from 22 Hofstra Lab. & Emp. L.J. 601)

2007 Professors' Update to Grodin, Malin & Weisberger's Public Sector Employment: Cases and Materials (with Martin H. Malin and Joseph E. Slater)

Strategies for Combating Sexual Harassment: The Role of Labor Unions, 15 Tex. J. Women & L. 183 (2006)

Fulfilling the Promise of the National Labor Relations Act: A Review of Taking Back the Workers Law, 57 Lab. L. J. 176 (2006)

Bargaining for Privacy in the Unionized Workplace, 22 Int’l J. Comp. Lab. L. & Indus. Rel. 147 (2006)

The Limits of Multiple Rights and Remedies: A Call for Revisiting the Law of the Workplace, The 40th Anniversary of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Symposium, 22 Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal 601 (2005).
Bargaining for Privacy in the Unionized Workplace, Workplace Privacy: Here and Abroad, Proceedings of New York University 58th Annual Conference on Labor (Kluwer Legal International, 2005).
The Business Fallout from the Rapid Obsolescence and Planned Obsolescence of High-tech Products: Downsizing of Noncompetition Agreements, Columbia Science & Technology Law Review, Vol. 6 (2004-2005) (with Porcher L. Taylor, III), available at http://www.stlr.org/cite.cgi?volume=6&article=3.
Chapters

Speech of Government Employees, in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (Routledge 2007)

Matters of Public Concern Standard in Free Speech Cases, in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (Routledge 2007)

Disciplining Public Employees for Expressive Activity, in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (Routledge 2007)

Biographical Information
Memberships
Consultant: Administrative Conference of the United States. 1993-95.
Co-Founder: Legal Information Network for Cancer, a non-profit, community-based organization dedicated to helping people with cancer and their families deal with the business side of cancer.
Bar Admissions
Supreme Court of Illinois
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Professional Experience
Professor of Law (1994-present)
University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, Va.
Associate Professor of Law (1991-1994)
Assistant Professor of Law (1988-1991)
Attorney (1981-1988)
Katz, Friedman, et. al., Chicago, IL 
Field Examiner (1974-1978)
National Labor Relations Board
Education
B.S., University of North Carolina 1973
Phi Beta Kappa
M.A., University of Illinois 1974
J.D., Northwestern University 1981
Managing Editor, Northwestern University Law Review; Member: Order of the Coif
Contact Information
321 School of Law
(804) 289-8909
(804) 289-8683 (FAX)