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Converge for Impact fosters, supports, and promotes collaboration between workplace law academics and attorneys to advance workplace law research and improve the state of workplace law.
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Practice-Relevant Scholarship
Workplace law scholarship should be useful to workplace law lawyers.
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Spotlight
Employment Law Scholars Submit Comment on Proposed Federal-Employee NDA
Workplace law professors Rachel Arnow-Richman, Jonathan Harris and Orly Lobel joined forces with information transparency experts Professors Mark Fenster and Margaret Kwoka to submit a public comment to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), criticizing its proposed nondisclosure agreement (NDA) for federal employees. Drawing from their scholarship on worker mobility, whistleblowing and information controls, […]
Learn MoreSpeech and mobility are among the foremost fuels of both democracy and industry. We are honored to share our research underscoring why government must protect these values.
Professor Orly Lobel
San Diego Law School
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Scholars Urge EEOC to Preserve EEO-1 Reporting Requirements
Workplace Law scholars Stacy Hawkins (Rutgers), Andrea J. Johnson (New York Law) and Shirley Lin (Brooklyn) submitted a public comment to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), opposing its proposed rescission of the EEO-1 workforce demographic reporting requirements. Nearly 120 law and social science professors with expertise in workplace law, civil rights and the […]
Learn MorePutting [our] research in front of the Commission during a live rulemaking is exactly the kind of contribution scholars should be making.
Professor Andrea Johnson
New York Law School
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Professor Alvin Velazquez Offers New Playbook for Building Union Power
Workplace law scholar Alvin Velazquez (Indiana) has published an essay, Using Business Law to Build Labor Power, in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, demonstrating how the labor movement can deploy corporate and bankruptcy law as tools to build worker power. Bringing his perspective as a former Associate General Counsel to the Service Employees […]
Learn MoreI entered academia to publish the type of scholarship that I would have found useful in my time in practice as an in-house labor counsel.
Professor Alvin Velazquez
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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