Thanks to Ben Sachs for allowing me space for a reply and to Terri Gerstein and David Seligman for taking the time to respond to my post. While I appreciate Gerstein and Seligman’s perspective, and I agree with them about the need to stop wage theft and protec... More »
“Wage theft” is an evocative turn of phrase, but how literally should we take it? Used to refer to employers underpaying workers or denying them compensation to which they are entitled, the phrase increasingly crops up in conversations about work law and p... More »
Ben Levin is Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. What role do private employers have to play in the criminal justice system? And, what does employment law doctrine have to do with mass incarceration? In Criminal Employment Law (forthcomi... More »
Ben Levin is Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. That sound you hear isn’t the air being let out of footballs. It’s the collective groans of New England Patriots fans. On Monday, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sec... More »
Ben Levin is Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Trying to read the tea leaves in oral argument questions can be a risky proposition. But, one particular exchange during Monday’s argument in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association... More »
Ben Levin is Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Earlier this week, the NLRB declined to exercise jurisdiction in a much-publicized case involving Northwestern University Wildcats football players’ efforts to claim employee status and un... More »