Audio interview by Robert Julian, April 2005

Michael Gold, a popular professor among ILR students, teaches courses on ethics, labor and employment law, and employment discrimination law. He has also published introductory books on the latter two subjects and articles in scholarly journals on sex discrimination, the theory of disparate impact, and age discrimination. At present he is attempting to develop a new approach to teaching law. 

Last spring he sat down in the recording studio with Robert Julian and talked about his own college experience, the Peace Corps in Liberia, law practice in California, arrival at ILR, his courses and research and much more.

Transcript of complete interview (pdf)

• Entire Audio Interview (mp3) (18:27)
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• Audio Excerpts
• Undergraduate life at Berkeley: a microcosm of the world (mp3) (1:08)
• Political Theory & Shakespeare: courses that made a difference (mp3) (1:09)
• Backing into my major (mp3) (0:43)
• Experience at law school (mp3) (0:30)
• Deciding to teach (mp3) (1:21)
• Joining the ILR Faculty (mp3) (0:46)
• The biggest challenge: teaching the students who don't want to be here (mp3) (1:42)
• Favorite courses: Labor Law & Ethics (mp3) (1:00)
• The context is labor law: the real focus is thinking (mp3) (2:24)
• Thoughts on ethics as a required course (mp3) (0:41)
• Current research: levels of abstraction (mp3) (2:27)
• On writing (mp3) (0:16)
• Spare time (mp3) (0:16)
• Reading: spy stories, St. Augustine and everything in between (mp3) (0:43)

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