Benjamin Sachs

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: One-Day Take-home In this 4-credit course, we will examine the laws that govern and structure the employment relationship in nonunion…

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites but Employment Law or Labor Law (or a similar course) is strongly recommended as background. Exam Type: No Exam…

In this seminar we will explore emerging trends and longstanding questions in the fields of labor and employment law. Topics may include the employment classification…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam In this two unit course, students will generate and publish writing on labor and employment law, labor politics, and…

Prerequisite: By Permission. Students interested in applying to join the Lab should submit a short (500 word maximum) statement of interest to Professor Sachs by…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule In this 4-credit course, we will examine the laws that govern…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course will focus on the statutory, judicial, and administrative law governing…

Benjamin I. Sachs, Safety, Health, and Union Access in Cedar Point Nursery, 2021 Supreme Ct. Rev. 99 (2022).

Benjamin I. Sachs, The Unbundled Union: Politics Without Collective Bargaining, 123 Yale L.J. 148 (2013).

Kate Andrias & Benjamin Sachs, Constructing Countervailing Power: Law and Organizing in an Era of Political Inequality, 130 Yale L.J. 546 (2021).

Benjamin I. Sachs, Despite Preemption: Making Labor Law In Cities and States, 124 Harv. L. Rev. 1153 (2011).

Benjamin Sachs, Unpreemption: The NLRB’s Untapped Power to Authorize State Experimentation, OnLabor (Jan. 11, 2022).

Benjamin Sachs, A Small Point About Cedar Point, OnLabor (June 23, 2021).

Benjamin Sachs, Supreme Court Ruling Hampers Unions’ Political Speech, Justice Watch (June 22, 2012).

Benjamin Sachs, Benching NFL Players For Protesting During the Anthem Would Be Illegal, VOX (Oct. 15, 2017, 8:36 AM).

Benjamin I. Sachs & Noah Zatz, Opinion, The Law is on the NFL Players’ Side, N.Y. Times, Oct. 17, 2017.

Benjamin I. Sachs, Revitalizing Labor Law: The David E. Feller Memorial Lecture, 31 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 333 (2010).

Benjamin I. Sachs, The Unbundled Union: Politics Without Collective Bargaining (O Sindicato Aberto: Política Sem Negociação Coletiva), 4 Revista Direito das Relações Sociais e Trabalhista…

Benjamin I. Sachs, Law, Organizing, and Status Quo Vulnerability, 96 Tex. L. Rev. 351 (2017).

Benjamin Sachs, Agency Fees and the First Amendment, 131 Harv. L. Rev. 1046 (2018).

Benjamin I. Sachs, Reorganizing Work: The Evolution of Work Changes in the Japanese and Swedish Automobile Industries (Routledge 1994).

Benjamin I. Sachs, Card Check 2.0: A Better Fix for Union Organizing than the Employee Free Choice Act, Slate, Apr. 16, 2009.

Benjamin I. Sachs, Opinion, How Pensions Violate Free Speech, N.Y. Times, July 13, 2012, at A23.

Benjamin I. Sachs, Corporate Shareholders Deserve Equal Rights on Campaign Finance, The Wire, Aug. 13, 2012.

Benjamin I. Sachs, A New Kind of Union, N.Y. Times, Sept. 2, 2013, at A17.

Benjamin I. Sachs & Catherine Fisk, Why Should Unions Negotiate for Workers Who Don’t Pay Their Fair Share?, L.A. Times, July 9, 2014.

Benjamin I. Sachs, Case Note, Whose Reasonableness Counts?: Elewski v. City of Syracuse, 123 F. 3d 51 (2d Cir. 1997), 107 Yale L.J. 1523 (1998).

Benjamin I. Sachs, Fulfilling the Promise of Economic Rights: Learning from Labor and Employment Law, in Making Equal Rights Real: Taking Effective Action to Overcome…

Benjamin I. Sachs, Union Organizing and the Architecture of Employee Choice, in Research Handbook on the Economics of Labor and Employment Law 146 (Cynthia L.

Benjamin I. Sachs, Privacy as Sphere Autonomy, 88 Bull. Comp. Lab. Rel. 233 (2014).

Benjamin I. Sachs, Labor Law Renewal, 1 Harv. L. & Pol’y Rev. 375 (2007).

Benjamin I. Sachs, Introduction: Labor Scholarship in an Era of Uncertainty, 17 Theoretical Inquiries L. 1 (2016).

Daryl Levinson & Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 125 Yale L.J. 400 (2015).

Benjamin I. Sachs, Enabling Employee Choice: a Structural Approach to the Rules of Union Organizing, 123 Harv. L. Rev. 655 (2010)…

Benjamin I. Sachs, Reinhardt at Work, 120 Yale L.J. 573 (2010).

Benjamin I. Sachs, Unions, Corporations, and Political Opt-Out Rights After Citizens United, 112 Colum. L. Rev. 800 (2012).

Catherine L. Fisk & Benjamin I. Sachs, Restoring Equity in Right-to-Work Law, 4 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 857 (2014).

Benjamin I. Sachs, Employment Law as Labor Law, 29 Cardozo L. Rev. 2685 (2008).