Expertise
Race, Gender & the Law
Biography
Jonathan Harris joined the Loyola Law School faculty in June 2021. Professor Harris writes and speaks on contracting in employment and equity in workforce development. His publications have appeared or are forthcoming in the Alabama Law Review, California Law Review Online, Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, and New York City Law Review. He previously taught in the Lawyering Program at NYU School of Law and came to academia after practicing employment and labor law in government and in firm and in-house counsel settings. He also clerked for Judge James E. Graves, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit while teaching at Mississippi College School of Law. Professor Harris began his legal career as a Skadden Fellow, providing direct legal services, legislative advocacy, and community outreach at the intersections of employment and consumer law. Prior to that, he worked as a labor and community organizer, focusing on the rights of immigrant workers.
Publications, Research and Related Material
Selected Publications
- Socioeconomic Duress in Employment Contracting, 42 COMPAR. LAB. L. & POL’Y J. __ (forthcoming 2022) (invited)
- Unconscionability in Contracting for Worker Training, 72 ALA. L. REV. 723 (2021)
(reviewed in JOTWELL by Miriam A. Cherry) - Is There a Right to Job Quality? Reenvisioning Workforce Development (with Livia Lam), 11 CALIF. L. REV. ONLINE 339 (2020)
- Collecting Unpaid Wages & Enforcing Judgments in Maryland (with Molly Theobald), PUB. JUST. CTR. (Aug. 2012)
- Worker Unity and the Law: A Comparative Analysis of the National Labor Relations Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the Hope for the NLRA’s Future, 13 N.Y.C. L. REV. 107 (2009) (winner, Burton Award for Distinguished Writing in a Student Note)
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Education
- AB, Duke University, cum laude
- JD, City University of New York School of Law
Contact
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