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Employment discrimination, sexual and racial harassment, disability discrimination and accomodation, employment contracts, wrongful discharge, whistleblowers, wage and hour law, employee benefits, vicarious liability, workplace safety and health, workers' compensation, mediation and arbitration of employment disputes, contract law

J. H. Verkerke

Professor of Law
Barron F. Black Research Professor
Director, Program for Employment and Labor Law Studies
J.D., Yale Law School, 1990
M.Phil., Yale University, 1988
B.A., Loyola College, 1983

Before he received his law degree in 1990, J. H. (Rip) Verkerke earned a master's of philosophy in economics. Verkerke joined the Law School faculty in 1991 and teaches employment law, employment discrimination law, contracts, and a seminar on law and economics.

While at Yale, Verkerke was articles editor and articles administrator for The Yale Law Journal and held a number of fellowships, including the John M. Olin Fellowship in Law, Economics, and Public Policy. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Ralph K. Winter Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

In June 1996 Verkerke received a three-year grant from the University's Academic Enhancement Program to establish the Program for Employment and Labor Law Studies at the Law School. He served as visiting professor of law at the University of Texas at Austin in the fall of 1997. Verkerke also participated in an ABA project to draft a new labor code for the transitional government of Afghanistan. In 2007, Verkerke received an All-University Teaching Award from UVA.

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