Elon University, Greensboro, NC, 2007 - present

Associate Professor of Law, Elon University School of Law

Affiliated Faculty, Elon University Center for Law and Humanities



Teaching

• Employment Law (Spring 2009, Spring 2008)
• Administrative Law (Spring 2009)
• Professional Responsibility (Winter 2009)
• Civil Procedure (Fall 2008)
• Social Research & Law (Spring 2008)
• Business Associations (Fall 2007)

Research

• Paper Chase 2.0: Law Students on Facebook
• The Virtual Construction of Legality: Legal Consciousness and Dispute Resolution in the Second Life® Virtual World
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Venue Transfer Motions in Federal Court
• Educate, Litigate, Organize: Union Lawyers and Their Clients
• The Compleat Angler’s Code: Tradition, Innovation, and the Folk Law of Fly Fishing

Law School & University Service

• Faculty Advisor, Elon Law Review
• Faculty Advisor, Elon ACLU
• Faculty Advisor, Business Law Association
• Faculty Advisor, Entertainment Law Society
• Law School Dean’s Search Committee (2008-09)
• Law School Faculty Recruitment Committee (2008-09)
• Law School Curriculum and Assessment Committee (2007-08)
• University Intellectual Property Policy Task Force

Liars and Terrorists and Judges, Oh My: Moral Panic and the Symbolic Politics of Appellate Review in Asylum Cases, 83 Notre Dame Law Review 2019 (2008); reprinted in __ Immigration and Nationality Law Review __ (2009) (forthcoming)

Post-Realism, or the Jurisprudential Logic of Late Capitalism: A Socio-Legal Analysis of the Rise and Diffusion of Law and Economics, 55 Hastings Law Journal 931 (2004)

Union and Employee Access to Employer E-mail Systems Under Federal Labor Law, with Stuart W. Davidson, in The CyberUnion Handbook: Transforming Labor Through Computer Technology (A. Shostak, ed., 2002)

Contributing Editor, The Developing Labor Law (P. Hardin, ed., 4th ed. 2001)

Book Note, The Caribbean: New Dynamics in Trade and Political Economy, 28 NYU JILP 644 (1996)

IWW Organizer Training Workshop,  Greensboro, NC

• Labor Law Basics (March 8, 2009)

Talking Union (http://talkingunion.wordpress.com)

• The Real Issue in the Debate Over the Employee Free Choice Act  (February 16, 2009)

WUNC-FM, Chapel Hill, NC

• “The State of Things”: Labor Unions in North Carolina (December 18, 2008)

WGHP-TV, Greensboro, NC

• My Rights: Laid Off (December 15, 2008)

North Carolina/South Carolina Labor and Employment Law Program and Annual Meeting, Asheville, NC

• Family Responsibility Accommodation and Discrimination (October, 18, 2008)

Gamma Theta Upsilon (Geography Honors Society), UNC-Greensboro

• The Place of Place in Law: Law & Geography (April 24, 2008).

North Carolina Open Government Coalition, Elon, NC

• Forum on North Carolina Public Records Law (March 20, 2008)

Converge South Electronic Media Conference, Greensboro, NC

• Legal Issues Online (October 19, 2007)

Journal of Mundane Behavior, (http://www.mundanebehavior.org)

• Outburst 24: ‘My’ Cellphone  (June 3, 2004)

Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, CA, 2004 - 2006

• Lecturer in Law: Legal Research & Writing

University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, PA, 2003 - 2004

• Guest Lecturer:Legal Studies; Employment Law

St. Joseph’s University, Comey Institute of Industrial Relations, Philadelphia, PA, 1997 - 2003

• Instructor: Labor Law; Labor Negotiation and Arbitration; Social History of the U.S.Labor Movement; Sociology of Work; Globalization and Labor

Montgomery County Community College, Pottstown, PA, Fall 2000

• Instructor: Introduction to Sociology

The Anglo-American College, Prague, Czech Republic, 1992

• Lecturer: Introduction to Sociology; Economic Sociology; Sociology of Law

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1989 - 1991

• Teaching Assistant: Law & Society; Political Sociology; Race & Ethnicity

Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, IL, Autumn 1988

• Instructor: Introduction to Sociology

Leonard Carder, LLP, Oakland & San Francisco, CA, 2006 – 2007

• Associate: Labor and employment law representing labor unions and workers

The Weinstein Firm, Philadelphia, PA, 2004 – 2006 (part-time)

• Of Counsel: Civil litigation and employment law compliance consulting

Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, Philadelphia, PA, 2004 - 2005

• Associate: Civil litigation representing businesses, nonprofits, and individuals

Willig, Williams & Davidson, Philadelphia, PA, 1997 - 2002

• Associate: Labor and employment law representing labor unions and workers

New York University School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 1997

• Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow
• Journal of International Law & Politics, Symposium Editor
• Order of the Coif

University of Chicago, Doctoral Student in Sociology (ABD), 1987-1992

• Special Fields in Industrial Organization (honors) and Economic Sociology

London School of Economics, M.Sc., Sociology, 1985

• Thesis: Policing and Riots in the U.S. and U.K.—A Comparative Analysis of the Kerner and Scarman Reports

The Johns Hopkins University, B.A., Sociology, 1984

Society of American Law Teachers

American Association of University Professors

American Constitution Society

American Bar Association

Guilford County (NC) Bar Association

Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania (1997); California (2008) (inactive)

Industrial Workers of the World

• Training in labor law and organizing for union staff and members
• Advising and assistance with union organizing campaigns in trucking and food-service industries