Cynthia Estlund
Crystal Eastman Professor of Law
NYU School of Law
Cynthia Estlund
Crystal Eastman Professor of Law
NYU School of Law
Cynthia Estlund is the Catherine A. Rein Professor at NYU School of Law. Her most recent book is Automation Anxiety: Why and How to Save Work (Oxford, 2021). She has published widely on the law and regulation of work, including three earlier books: A New Deal for China’s Workers? (Harvard, 2017); Regoverning the Workplace: From Self-Regulation to Co-Regulation (Yale, 2010); and Working Together: How Workplace Bonds Strengthen a Diverse Democracy (Oxford, 2003). She has also produced two co-edited volumes and over eighty articles, book chapters, reviews, and essays on a range of topics in collective labor law, employment law, and workplace governance, mainly on US law but also comparative perspectives. She teaches Labor Law and Employment Law, and several seminars in the area, as well as Property and Torts. Before coming to NYU Law in 2006, she taught at the University of Texas School of Law and Columbia Law School.
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A New Dawn of Workplace Regulation: The Gig Economy
This documentary explores the historical evolution of worker classification, tracking the changes in the DOL’s rules during both the Trump and Biden administrations and examining different actions at the state level.
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