Benjamin Sachs ✦ OnLabor

Benjamin Sachs is the Kestnbaum Professor of Labor and Industry at Harvard Law School and a leading expert in the field of labor law and labor relations. He is also faculty director of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy. Professor Sachs teaches courses in labor law, employment law, and law and social change, and his writing focuses on union organizing and unions in American politics. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty in 2008, Professor Sachs was the Joseph Goldstein Fellow at Yale Law School. From 2002-2006, he served as Assistant General Counsel of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in Washington, D.C. Professor Sachs graduated from Yale Law School in 1998, and served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. His writing has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the New York Times and elsewhere. Professor Sachs received the Yale Law School teaching award in 2007 and in 2013 received the Sacks-Freund Award for Teaching Excellence at Harvard Law School. He can be reached at [email protected].

OnLabor

Author:Benjamin Sachs

London Bans Uber

Is it Time to End Labor Preemption?

Sharon Block Testifies on Gig Economy

Uber’s Passenger Acceptance Rules: More Evidence of Employee Status

The Un-Newness of Uber’s Arguments

South African Labor Commission: Uber Drivers are Employees

Pope Francis’ Union Message

UBI: Playing Defense or Playing the Long Game?

Seattle and the (Methodology of the) Economics of Minimum Wage

Seattle and the Economics of Minimum Wage

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