Scholarship-in-Action
Converge for Impact believes that workplace law scholarship should be test-run in the real world. The Scholarship-in-Action Initiative supports and promotes academics who try to put their research to work. It helps forge partnerships between professors, lawyers, and legal organizations to implement legal theories on the ground to bolster cases and benefit of clients.
Summer 2026
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, […]
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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 […]
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Leading Title VII Scholars File Amicus Brief to SCOTUS in Ames v. Ohio
Professors Katie Eyer, Sandra Sperino, and Deborah Widiss are bringing their Title VII expertise to bear in the soon-to-be-argued Supreme Court case Ames v. Ohio.
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Professor Jonathan Harris’ Scholarship Fuels Efforts to Abolish TRAPs
Professor Jonathan Harris’s scholarship on training repayment agreement provisions (“TRAPs”) is fueling an on-the-ground movement to ban these pernicious restraints on worker mobility.
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Professor Ryan Nelson Puts His Legal Scholarship to the Test
In partnership with One Fair Wage, Professor Ryan Nelson is testing his idea of combatting subminimum wage through discrimination law in the 9th Circuit. Professor Nelson argues that tipping and commissions can have a disparate impact on women and people of color because of discriminatory customer preferences. The suit is now facing a novel standing issue, providing more fodder for Professor Nelson’s research agenda.
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