By Andrew Cohen
With the AI explosion sparking panic throughout the American workplace, the U.S. wealth gap reaching its widest point in over three decades, and mounting debate over employee misclassification, paid leave laws, and salary range transparency, labor issues have increasingly taken center stage.
At Berkeley Law, growing student interest in such topics intersects with burgeoning possibilities — from faculty experts and new course offerings to journal work and timely research center projects.
“Labor and employment law at Berkeley is really special due to its scope and accessibility,” 3L Katie Chin says. “You can come in with no background knowledge of employment law, like I did. Or, for those who know they’re interested in this area, there are lots of opportunities to take classes on specialized topics like employment arbitration or do research on specific areas of interest in collaboration with the Center for Law and Work (CLAW).”
Chin, who just ended her term as co-editor-in-chief of the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law (BJELL), points to the school’s faculty anchors in the field: Professors Diana S. Reddy and Catherine Fisk ’86, and CLAW Executive Director Christina Chung, who launched the center in 2020. Reddy and Fisk are co-faculty directors of the center with fellow professor Catherine Albiston ’93.
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