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Labor Law

Andrew Elmore brings over two decades of experience in advocating for low-wage workers and studying the role of law in protecting workplace standards and of social movements in advancing workers’ rights.

“We live in interesting times in a lot of ways,” says Professor Andrew Elmore, who joined Boston University School of Law this spring. “One way is that the drum beat of demands from regular workers for better work conditions in recent years has broken through to the national conversation in a way that we haven’t seen in a long time.”

Since graduating from Swarthmore College, Andrew Elmore has been fascinated with the workplace and the ways that work structures life, particularly how people can both gain autonomy—but also have their freedoms restricted—by workplace conditions. His scholarship explores the failures of labor and employment law and tort law to effectively regulate low-wage workplaces and how social movement actors can advance workers’ rights.

Before starting law school, Elmore’s interest in labor organizations and work centers led him to work for several unions and research groups. Narrowing his focus to the labor rights of low-wage workers, Elmore moved to Mexico for a year to work with different nonprofits on issues including the failure of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to protect maquila workers. “I became fascinated with the ways that lawyers have and use power,” says Elmore, “not just...

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