Cynthia . Estlund
New York University School of Law
Cynthia Estlund, Esq., is the Catherine A. Rein Professor at NYU School of Law, and a leading scholar of labor and employment law. Estlund got her B.A. from Lawrence University, and her J.D. from Yale Law School. After clerking for Judge Patricia M. Wald on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Estlund practiced law for several years, primarily at the labor law firm of Bredhoff & Kaiser in D.C. She taught at the University of Texas and Columbia Law School before moving to NYU in 2006. She has written extensively on workplace regulation and governance; freedom of expression and procedural fairness at work; diversity, integration, and affirmative action; and many aspects of collective labor law - mainly in the U.S. but also from a comparative perspective. Her first book Working Together: How Workplace Bonds Strengthen a Diverse Democracy (Oxford Univ. Press, 2003), argues that workplace diversity, coupled with the cooperation and sociability that work entails, has important implications for democratic theory and for labor and employment law. Her book, Regoverning the Workplace: From Self-Regulation to Co-Regulation (Yale Univ. Press, 2010), chronicles the decline of collective bargaining, the rise of employment law, and current trends in regulatory practice, and charts a possible path toward better and more participatory workplace governance. She is at work on a new book on reform in the wake of rising labor unrest in China.
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