Labor Law Professor

Labor law professors teach and research the legal frameworks governing the employer-employee relationship—collective bargaining, union organizing, unfair labor practices, wages and hours, workplace discrimination, and increasingly, the classification of workers in the gig economy. The field sits at the intersection of private law and public policy.

The contemporary relevance of labor law makes scholarship especially engaging. Questions about independent contractor classification, platform economy workers, non-compete agreements, and evolving NLRB interpretations are live legal debates that connect naturally to course content. Teaching materials tend to stay current in ways that some more settled legal fields don't require.

People who tend to thrive have genuine interest in the political economy of work and find the policy dimensions of labor law as engaging as the doctrine. If you're interested in how legal frameworks shape worker power and employer prerogatives—and can teach it in ways that connect to real contemporary debates—labor law teaching tends to be intellectually vibrant. Interdisciplinary connections to economics, sociology, and political science are natural and tend to enrich the scholarship.