Labor and Employment

Sarah Burns combines law with learning in social science to develop effective solutions for problems that institutions and communities face. Burns, at NYU School of Law since 1990, specializes in experiential learning, developing simulation and clinical courses in civil litigation, negotiation, mediation, dispute system design, policy advocacy, organizing, and systemic change as part of the Law School’s widely recognized Clinical Program. Burns began law practice as a litigating lawyer with the Washington, D.C., commercial law firm Covington & Burling. She cites representing industry associations in federal regulatory matters as “my first introduction as a lawyer to interest-based practice that is so central to all negotiation and coalition work—whether in for-profit or not-for-profit/NGO sectors.” Burns later moved into public interest civil rights practice, doing litigation, legislative, and policy advocacy work. She has worked on cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and on matters before Congress, but found discrimination law trial work among the most interesting, using social science research both to develop proof and systemic solutions. Burns graduated in 1979 from Yale Law School, where she edited the Yale Law Journal, and holds master’s degrees from Stanford University in sociology and the University of Oklahoma in human relations.

Paulette Caldwell spent the first decade of her legal career at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler and the Ford Foundation concentrating on the corporate and tax representation of charitable and other not-for-profit organizations and commercial real estate transactions. Since joining the NYU School of Law faculty in 1979, Caldwell has taught courses in property, real estate transactions, and not-for-profit organizations, and she has concentrated her teaching and scholarship on issues of race, civil rights, and the intersection of race and gender. She offers a Race and Legal Scholarship Seminar, in which her specialty, critical race theory, is examined in relation to other jurisprudential movements in the law. In recent years, she has focused on the law and policy governing equity in public elementary and secondary education. Caldwell has served as a consultant to and member of the boards of directors of numerous nonprofit organizations, and she is currently a member of the boards of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts.

Cynthia Estlund is a leading scholar of labor and employment law and workplace governance. In her recent book Regoverning the Workplace: From Self-Regulation to Co-Regulation (2010), she chronicles the current crisis of workplace governance and charts a potential path forward. In her first book, Working Together: How Workplace Bonds Strengthen a Diverse Democracy (2003), she argued that the workplace is a site of both comparatively successful integration and intense cooperation, and she explored the implications for democratic theory and for labor and employment law. Other writings focus on freedom of speech and procedural fairness at work; diversity, integration, and affirmative action; and critical perspectives on labor law. Her current research is in workplace transparency, transnational labor regulation, and Chinese labor issues. Before joining the NYU School of Law faculty in 2006, Estlund taught at the University of Texas School of Law and Columbia Law School. Estlund graduated summa cum laude from Lawrence University, in Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1978. She earned her J.D. at Yale Law School in 1983.

Samuel Estreicher has published more than a dozen books, including casebooks on labor law and employment discrimination and employment law; treatises on employment law and labor law, as well as a series on global issues in workplace law; and authored more than 150 articles in professional and academic journals. After clerking for Judge Harold Leventhal of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, practicing with a union-side law firm, then clerking for Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court, Estreicher joined the NYU School of Law faculty in 1978. He is the former secretary of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the American Bar Association, a former chair of the Committee on Labor and Employment Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and chief reporter of the Restatement (Third) of Employment Law, sponsored by the American Law Institute. He is also of counsel to Paul Hastings in its labor and employment and appellate practice groups. In recent years, Estreicher has published work in public international law, authored several briefs in the Supreme Court and U.S. courts of appeals on international issues, and has taught International Arbitration, International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and International Litigation in the Federal Courts. He also maintains an active mediation and arbitration practice. Estreicher received his B.A. from Columbia College, his M.S. in industrial relations from Cornell University, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review.

For more than two decades, Paula Galowitz has concen-trated her teaching, scholarship, and bar association work on improving legal services for the indigent. Today she is widely known both as a clinical teacher and as an expert on civil legal services for indigent clients. A graduate of Brooklyn Law School, Galowitz clerked for Judge Jacob D. Fuchsberg of the New York State Court of Appeals before joining the civil division of the New York Legal Aid Society. In 1980, she came to NYU School of Law. Galowitz teaches in the Medical-Legal Advocacy Clinic, which employs a multidisciplinary and holistic approach to providing on-site legal advocacy assistance and training to medical providers. The clinic represents indigents in a wide variety of matters involving housing, government benefits, family law, immigration, education, and AIDS. Galowitz also teaches in the Community Development and Economic Justice Clinic, in which students provide legal services to grassroots community groups; in their fieldwork, the students represent clients in transactional matters and litigation cases. Galowitz also teaches a simulation course on civil litigation and has taught a seminar called Professional Responsibility in the Public Interest. She is currently on the board of trustees of the Interest on Lawyer Account Fund (IOLA) of the State of New York and on the board of directors of the Center for the Study of Applied Legal Education (CSALE).

Deborah Malamud is a leader among legal academics who study issues of class and public policy, as well as an expert on labor and employment law. Her contributions to the study of class and the law focus on how the law reflects and helps shape our understanding of what it means to be a member of the middle class in the United States. Malamud is also known for her doctrinal and historical scholarship on key issues in labor law and employment discrimination doctrine, including affirmative action. Malamud served as the faculty director of the AnBryce Scholarship Program at NYU School of Law from 2004 to 2011. She viewed her involvement with this unique community of scholars as both an honor and a distinctive opportunity. Malamud was on the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School from 1992 to 2003. Before embarking on her academic career, she was a law clerk to Judge Louis Pollak, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and Justice Harry Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court. Malamud received her B.A. from Wesleyan University and her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.