In this episode, Suja A. Thomas, Peer and Sarah Pedersen Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, discusses her article, \"The Customer Caste: Lawful Discrimination by Public Businesses,\" which will be published in the California Law Review. Thomas begins by describing the history of anti-discrimination laws in relation to public accommodations and how courts have interpreted them. She observed that those interpretations preclude many discrimination claims, and argues that courts should interpret anti-discrimination statutes in light of the purpose of the law. She also discussed the relationship between public accommodation discrimination and employment discrimination. Thomas is on Twitter at @sujathomas3.
This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye.
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