Labor and Employment Law

During the past two years, there have been several significant developments in labor and employment law, both on the state and federal levels. Because developments in both state and federal law likely will have a profound impact on employers and employees throughout Virginia, they warrant significant discussion in this survey. In addition to examining notable decisions from the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the Eastern District and Western District of Virginia, this survey also discusses decisions of the Supreme Court of Virginia regarding employment issues as they relate to state law

A Defence of the Sensitivity Analysis of Knowledge

It is widely considered that Nozick’s sensitivity analysis of knowledge fails. This is largely due to arguments proposed by Sosa. In this paper, I defend Nozick’s sensitivity condition on knowledge. To do this, I define and motivate sensitivity, then explain Sosa’s definition of safety and its supposed advantages. For all three of Sosa’s purported counterexamples, we will find that the sensitivity theorist can offer responses that are more satisfactory than those available to the proponent of Sosa’s safety theory. Having motivated sensitivity and shown that it deals with these purported counterexamples better than safety, I will conclude that Sosa fails to motivate a move from sensitivity to safety