Associate Professor of Law, 2007-present

• Tenure awarded 2012
• Jennings Professor and Emerging Scholar, 2010-2012

Journal Articles

“Just When I Thought I was Out …”: Post-Employment Repayment Obligations, with Stuart Lichten, 25 Washington & Lee Journal of Civil Rights & Social Justice 51 (2018)

Union Organizing & Collective Bargaining for Incarcerated Workers, 52 Idaho Law Review 953 (2016)

Sewer Syndicalism: Worker Control in Public Services, 14 Nevada Law Journal 444 (2014)

No Money, Mo’ Problems: Why Unpaid Law Firm Internships Are Illegal and Unethical, 47 University of San Francisco Law Review 435 (2013)

The Virtual Construction of Legality: “Griefing” and Normative Order in Second Life, 21 Journal of Law, Information, and Science 89 (2011)

Law School and The Web of Group Affiliation: Socializing, Socialization, and Social Network Site Use Among Law Students, 27 John Marshall Journal of Computer and Information Law 325 (2010)

Liars and Terrorists and Judges, Oh My: Moral Panic and the Symbolic Politics of Appellate Review in Asylum Cases, 83 Notre Dame Law Review 2019 (2008); reprinted in 29 Immigration and Nationality Law Review 45 (2008); cited in Djadjou v. Holder, 662 F.3d 265 (4th Cir. 2011) and Zuh v. Mukasey, 547 F.3d 504, 513 (4th Cir. 2008)

Post-Realism, or the Jurisprudential Logic of Late Capitalism: A Socio-Legal Analysis of the Rise and Diffusion of Law and Economics, 55 Hastings Law Journal 931 (2004)

Book Note, The Caribbean: New Dynamics in Trade and Political Economy, 28 NYU Journal of International Law and Politics 644 (1996)

Chapters, Reports, & Other Publications

Federal Student Loan Servicing: Contract Problems and Public Solutions, with Roland Zullo, Jobs With Justice Education Fund (2014)

Union and Employee Access to Employer E-mail Systems Under Federal Labor Law, with Stuart W. Davidson, in The CyberUnion Handbook: Transforming Labor Through Computer Technology (A. Shostak, ed., 2002)

Contributing Editor, The Developing Labor Law (P. Hardin, ed., 4th ed. 2001)

Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business

Stony Brook University, Center for Study of Working Class Life

University of Idaho School of Law, Idaho Law Review

ABA Section of International Law

UNLV Boyd School of Law, Nevada Law Journal

International Institute for the Sociology of Law

Southeastern Association of Law Schools

Law and Society Association

Incarcerated Worker Organizing Project

• Union Organizing for Incarcerated Workers: Legal Obstacles and Opportunities (September 2023)

National Society for Experiential Education

UNC Greeensboro

Elon Law School

Rockingham County Democratic Party

Open Government Coalition/Sunshine Center

• NC Open Government Law: A Guide for Public Officials (October 22, 2009)
• Forum on NC Public Records Law (March 20, 2008)

State Employees Association of North Carolina

• Public Employee Unions and Collective Bargaining (October 17, 2009)

Mitchell Community College

• The Labor Movement and Labor Law in 2009 (September 8, 2009)

NC/SC Labor and Employment Law

Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, CA

St. Joseph’s University/Comey Institute, Philadelphia, PA

Anglo-American College, Prague, Czech Republic

Leonard Carder, LLP, Oakland and San Francisco, CA

Eckert Seamans Cherin and Mellott, Philadelphia, PA

Willig, Williams and Davidson, Philadelphia, PA

New York University School of Law, New York, NY

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

London School of Economics, London, England

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

State

California (Inactive)

Pennsylvania (Retired Status)

Federal

Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Middle District of Pennsylvania