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Biographies
Employment Law
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Name:
Diane M. Juffras |
| Title:
Associate Professor of Public Law and Government |
| Phone:
919.843.4926 |
| E-mail: juffras@sog.unc.edu |
| Areas
of Interest: Employment law; employment discrimination law |
Diane Juffras joined the School of Government in 2001. Prior to that, she was an attorney in private practice in Connecticut, where she specialized in the areas of employment, health care, and business law and litigation. Juffras received an AB from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. Before attending law school, she received an MA and PhD in classics from the University of Michigan, and she taught in the Classics Departments at Princeton University, University of Virginia, and Ohio State University. |
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Name:
Robert P. Joyce |
| Title:
Charles Edwin Hinsdale Professor of Public Law and Government |
| Phone:
919.966.6860 |
| E-mail: joyce@sog.unc.edu |
| Areas
of Interest: School law (especially schools as employers);
higher education law; elections law; legislative representation; governmental
employer-employee relations; employment discrimination
law; news media-government relations |
Bob Joyce joined the Institute of Government in 1980. He has practiced law with Chadbourne & Parke in New York and with Barber & Joyce in Pittsboro, N.C. He is a past member of the executive committees of the Education Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association and the North Carolina Council of School Attorneys. He has served as editor
of the School of Government's Legislative Reporting
Service, School Law Bulletin, and Popular Government. His publications include The Law of Employment in North Carolina's Public Schools, The Precinct Manual, and chapters
in Education Law in North Carolina. Joyce earned a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a JD from Harvard Law School. |
Employment Management
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Name:
Willow S. Jacobson |
| Title:
Associate Professor of Public Administration and Government |
| Phone:
919.966.4760 |
| E-mail: jacobson@sog.unc.edu |
| Areas
of Interest: Human resource management; organizational
theory; public management |
Willow Jacobson joined the School of Government faculty in 2003. Prior to that, she taught in the Master of Public Administration program at the University of Connecticut and worked on the Government Performance Project and the New Jersey Initiative at the Alan K. Campbell Institute at The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. She has also assisted with strategic planning for community collaboratives in California and Oregon state government. Currently Jacobson teaches in the Master of Public Administration program, and she was integrally involved in the 2005 inaugural session of the Public Executive Leadership Academy. Her research has appeared in Public Administration Review and Public Personnel Management. Jacobson holds a PhD from Syracuse University. |
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