Overseen by Professor Leora Eisenstadt, an advisory board of executive leaders, employment law specialists, and government officials advises the institute on its education and research agenda pertaining to ethics and compliance, sustainability, inclusion, and workplace culture.
Institute Director
Leora Eisenstadt serves as academic director of the institute. She is a nationally recognized expert in race and sex discrimination, employment law, sexual harassment, retaliation and whistleblowing. Her publications include Intent and Liability in Employment Discrimination, Fluid Identity Discrimination, The N-Word at Work: Contextualizing Language in the Workplace and Whistleblowing in the Compliance Era.
Eisenstadt received her LLM from Temple University, her JD, cum laude from New York University School of Law, and her BA, cum laude from Yale University. Eisenstadt is the recipient of numerous awards for her work including the Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Virginia Maurer Distinguished Ethics Paper Award, the Ralph Hoeber Memorial Award for Outstanding American Business Law Journal Article, and she is a three-time winner of the Jackson Lewis Outstanding Employment Law Paper Award.
In the News
The N-Word at Work: Contextualizing Language in the Workplace (March 6, 2026)
Leora Eisenstadt: The best rules don’t change hiring biases (May 31, 2022)
Losing your privacy will be the new normal (July 16, 2020)
Anger in the workplace will grow without change in the law (June 21, 2017)
Why Sexual Harassment Can Be Tough to Fight at Small Firms (April 30, 2018)
