Tenure awarded 2012
Jennings Professor and Emerging Scholar (2010–2012)
Civil Procedure
Socio-Legal Perspectives on Labor and Employment
Professional Responsibility
Consumer Protection
Sewer Syndicalism: Worker Self-Management in Public Services, 14 Nevada Law Journal (forthcoming 2014)
No Money, Mo’ Problems: Why Unpaid Law Firm Internships Are Illegal and Unethical, 47 University of San Francisco Law Review (forthcoming 2013)
The Virtual Construction of Legality: 'Griefing' and Normative Order in Second Life, 21 Journal of Law, Information and Science 89 (2011)
Law School and The Web of Group Affiliation: Socializing, Socialization, and Social Network Site Use Among Law Students, 27 John Marshall Journal of Computer and Information Law 325 (2010)
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 29 Immigration and Nationality Law Review 45 (2008); cited in Zuh v. Mukasey, 547 F.3d 504, 513 (4th Cir. 2008)
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 Journal of International Law and Politics 644 (1996)
Panel Moderator: Antidiscrimination and the First Amendment
From Sewer Socialism to Sewer Syndicalism: Worker Self-Management in Public Services
Panel Moderator: How the War on Terror Has Affected Civil Liberties in Post-9/11 America
Panel on Internet Culture and the Law
From Sewer Socialism to Sewer Syndicalism: Unions, Worker-Control, and Privatization of Municipal Services
Panel Moderator: User-Generated Content
The Virtual Construction of Legality: Griefers, Vigilantes and Legal Consciousness in the Second Life Virtual World (New Scholars Colloquium)
The Virtual Construction of Legality: Griefers, Vigilantes and Legal Consciousness in the Second Life Virtual World
Panel on academic legal blogs as resources for scholarship and teaching
Recent Developments in Wage & Hour Law (March 6, 2013, June 6, 2012)
Recent Developments in Federal Labor Relations Law (March 6, 2012)
Legal Issues in Experiential Learning
Forum on Corporations and Campaign Finance (September 20, 2012)
Teach-in on Citizens United, Corporations, and Democracy (July 18, 2012)
Public Employees & Privatization (November 15, 2011)
Public Employee Unions & Collective Bargaining (October 17, 2009)
Local Government 101: Economic Development (October 7, 2011)
The Pros and Cons of Rewriting the U.S. Constitution (June 28, 2011)
"2 Wants to Know" Investigates: The American Community Survey (June 17, 2011)
Online Social Media and Your Rights at Work (September 11, 2009)
Panelist: The Future of Intellectual Property and the Web (April 29, 2010)
Commentary on North Carolina "Heartbalm" Lawsuit (April 2010)
Open Government Law: A Guide for Public Officials (October 22, 2009)
Forum on North Carolina Public Records Law (March 20, 2008)
The Labor Movement and Labor Law in 2009 (September 8, 2009)
Labor Law Basics (March 8, 2009)
"The State of Things": Labor Unions in North Carolina (December 18, 2008)
My Rights: Laid Off (December 15, 2008)
Family Responsibility Accommodation and Discrimination (October 18, 2008)
The Place of Place in Law: Law and Geography (April 24, 2008)
Legal Issues Online (October 19, 2007)
Legal Research and Writing
Labor Law; Labor Law and Labor Studies
Introduction to Sociology
Introduction to Sociology; Economic Sociology; Sociology of Law
Law and Society; Political Sociology; Race and Ethnicity
Introduction to Sociology
Labor and employment law, representing labor unions and individual workers
Commercial and civil litigation
Labor and employment law, representing labor unions and individual workers
Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow
Journal of International Law and Politics, Symposium Editor
Order of the Coif
Special Fields: Organizations (honors); Economic Sociology
Thesis: Policing and Riots in the U.S. and U.K.
Law and Society Association
Labor and Working Class History Association
Society of American Law Teachers
National Lawyers Guild
American Bar Association
NC State Bar, Ethics Committee Advisory Member
Bar Admission: California; Pennsylvania (Retired Status)
Industrial Workers of the World, Greensboro General Membership Branch
Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC)—Designated Commissioner, North Carolina Agricultural Arbitration Commission