Forced Arbitration in Employment Law: Who Wins and Who Loses?
NYU PPP and Cardozo School of Law's Labor & Employment Society are co-hosting a panel on forced arbitration in employment law. The panel will discuss the past, present, and future of forced arbitration with a focus on the resulting harms to workers. We will also be discussing the FAIR Act, a bill recently passed by the House of Representatives that would ban the enforcement of pre-dispute arbitration agreements.
Panelists:
Myriam Gilles, Professor of Law and Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law at Cardozo School of Law. Prof. Gilles specializes in class actions and aggregate litigation, and has written extensively on class action waivers in arbitration clauses. She also writes on structural reform litigation and tort law. She is the author of Unwaivable: Public Enforcement Claims and Mandatory Arbitration and The End of Doctrine: Private Arbitration, Public Law and the Anti-Lawsuit Movement
Lee Adler, Lecturer at Cornell's International Labor Relations School and labor, criminal law and civil rights practitioner. He teaches critical labor, employment law, and union leadership issues in academic, extension, and community settings. He has considerable strategic, policy-making, trial, and appellate experience in representing and educating unions and their members.
Charles Du, Associate General Cousel with SEIU 32BJ in New York, which represents property services workers. Charles has extensive experience in worker representation and policy advocacy.