Foundations of Labor and Employment Law

Samuel Estreicher is New York University Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law, Director of the Center for Labor and Employment Law, and Co-Director of the Dwight D. Opperman Institute of Judicial Administration.

Samuel Estreicher has published more than a dozen books, including his forthcoming Beyong Elite Law: Access to Civil Justice in America (Cambridge University Press 2016) (with Joy Raidce) leading casebooks on labor law and employment discrimination and employment law; and authored more than 150 articles in professional and academic journals. He served as Chief Reporter for the Restatement of Employment Law (American Law Institute (2015), After clerking for Judge Harold Leventhal of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, practice in labor law firm, and clerking for Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. of the US 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. In addition, he maintains an active appellate and arbitration-mediation practice. The Labor and Employment Research Association awarded him its 2010 Susan C. Eaton Award for Outstanding Scholar-Practitioner. In recent years, Estreicher has published work in public international law and authored several briefs in the Supreme Court and US courts of appeals on international issues. Estreicher received his BA from Columbia College, his MS in industrial relations from Cornell University, and his JD from Columbia Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review.

Stewart Schwab was appointed the Allan R. Tessler Dean of Cornell Law School in 2004. He has been a member of the Cornell Law School faculty since 1983. He obtained his J.D. as well as a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan. Schwab clerked for Judge Phillips of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and then for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court. A leading scholar in economic analysis of law and in employment law, he is currently a Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of Employment Law.