Dallan Flake, J.D., M.S.

Associate Dean, Faculty Scholarship; Associate Professor of Law

Dallan Flake is the Associate Dean of Faculty Scholarship and an Associate Professor of Law. Before joining Gonzaga Law in 2022, he taught at the Ohio Northern University College of Law and Brigham Young University. Dean Flake’s scholarship focuses...

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Education & Curriculum Vitae

J.D., University of Michigan Law School
M.S., Sociology, Brigham Young University
B.S./B.A. magna cum laude, Sociology and Latin American Studies

Curriculum Vitae

Courses Taught

Civil Procedure
Employment Discrimination
Federal Jurisdiction
Labor Law
Writing for Practice and the MPT
Dallan Flake is the  Associate Dean of Faculty Scholarship and an Associate Professor of Law. Before joining Gonzaga Law in 2022, he taught at the Ohio Northern University College of Law and Brigham Young University.

Dean Flake’s scholarship focuses on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, with emphasis on religious accommodations in the workplace and the employment of formerly incarcerated persons. His current research addresses the circuit split over whether an accommodation can be reasonable if it does not fully eliminate the conflict between an employee’s job and religion. His writing has been published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Iowa Law Review, and Boston College Law Review, among others.

Prior to teaching, Dean Flake practiced labor and employment law in Dallas, Texas, with Winstead PC and Ogletree Deakins, where he represented management on a variety of employment-related issues, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, noncompete agreements, wage-and-hour claims, workplace safety, employment torts, worker’s compensation, and labor disputes.

In his free time, Dean Flake enjoys college football, tennis, skiing, hole-in-the-wall restaurants, and road-tripping with his wife and six children.

Law Review Articles

Lifesaving Discrimination, 72 American University Law Review (forthcoming 2022).
 
Spectator Harassment, 56 Wake Forest Law Review 441 (2021).
 
Restoring Reasonableness to Workplace Religious Accommodations, 95 Washington Law Review 1673 (2020).
 
Using Religion to Protect Transgender Employees from Discrimination, 2020 Illinois Law Review 851 (2020).
 
Interactive Religious Accommodations, 71 Alabama Law Review 67 (2019).
 
Do Ban-the-Box Laws Really Work?, 104 Iowa Law Review 1079 (2019).
 
When Should Employers Be Liable for Factoring Biased Customer Feedback into Employment Decisions?, 102 Minnesota Law Review 2169 (2018).
 
Employer Liability for Non-Employee Discrimination, 58 Boston College Law Review 1169 (2017).
 
Religious Discrimination Based on Employer Misperception, 2016 Wisconsin Law Review 87 (2016).
 
Image is Everything: Corporate Branding and Religious Accommodation in the Workplace, 163 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 699 (2015).
 
Bearing Burdens: Religious Accommodations that Adversely Affect Coworker Morale, 76 Ohio State Law Journal 169 (2015).
 
When Any Sentence is a Life Sentence: Employment Discrimination Against Ex-Offenders, 93 Washington University Law Review 45 (2015).

Casebook co-author, Employment Law (with Richard Carlson, Richard A. Bales, & Michael Duff) (under contract with Aspen Publishers for next edition).