Leora Eisenstadt serves as academic director of the center. 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.