Assistant School

BRISHEN ROGERS

Assistant Professor of Law

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA July 2010-Present

Assistant Professor of Law

Teaching responsibilities: Torts, Employment Discrimination, Emerging Trends

in Labor Law (Seminar)

Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA September 2008-June 2010

Climenko Fellow and Lecturer in Law

Teaching responsibility: First-Year Legal Research and Writing.

EDUCATION

Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2006

President, Labor and Employment Law Project;

Editor-in-Chief, Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left;

Research assistant for Professors David Barron & Martha Minow

University of Virginia, B.A., with high distinction, Political and Social Thought, 1998

Additional Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Echols Scholar, Raven Society, Sorenson Prize

PUBLICATIONS

Class and the Limits of Liberal Justice (in progress)

Passion and Reason in Labor Law, 47 HARVARD CIVIL RIGHTS-CIVIL LIBERTIES LAW

REVIEW __ (2012)

Acting Like A Union : Protecting Workers Freedom of Choice by Promoting Workers

Collective Action, 123 HARV. L. REV. F. 38 (2010).

Toward Third Party Liability for Wage Theft, 31 BERK. J. EMP. & LAB. L. 1 (2010)

- Lead article for Volume 31.

- Reviewed by Michael Fischl, Really Sticky Default Rules, JOTWELL

December 13, 2010, http://worklaw.jotwell.com/really-sticky-default-rules/

The Complexities of Shareholder Primacy: A Response to Sanford Jacoby, 30 COMP. LAB.

L. & POL Y J. 95 (2008)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Change to Win Labor Federation, Washington DC June 2006-June 2008

Legal Counsel, CtW Investment Group: in-house attorney for pension advisory arm

of Change to Win labor federation.

Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C., New York, NY Summer 2005

Summer Associate: Assisted in legal representation of unions and individual workers

in suits arising under the FLSA, NLRA, ERISA, and Sarbanes-Oxley.

Office of New York State Attorney General, New York, NY Summer 2004

Intern, Investor Protection Bureau: Researched alleged breaches of fiduciary duties

within major financial services firms.

Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ, NYC Metro Area 2001- 2003

Political Organizer: Built political program and managed governmental relations on

campaigns that raised wages and benefits for over 5,000 janitors.

Progressive Minnesota/Progressive Maryland 1998-2001

Community Organizer: Built community-based organizations that passed living

wage and affordable housing laws and elected candidates to state and local office.

SELECTED WORKSHOPS AND PRESENTATIONS

Passion and Reason in Labor Law, Presented at Sixth Annual Colloquium on Current

Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law, Los Angeles, September 2012

The Minimum Wage as an Issue of Social Justice, presented at Law and Society

Association Conference, San Francisco CA, June 2011 and ClassCrits III Conference,

American University, September 2012

Moderator, panel on Pedagogy: Teaching Local 1330, Unbound Symposium, Local 1330

v. U.S. Steel: 30 Years Later. Feb 25, 2011, Harvard Law School.

Moderator, panel on New Means of Protecting Workers Rights in the Global Economy,

American University, Washington College of Law, April 2010.

The Four-Day Workweek and the Foundations of Employment Law, Connecticut Law

Review Symposium, Redefining Work: Implications of the Four-Day Workweek, October

30, 2009.

Combating Inequality in Global Supply Chains: The Case of Warehouse Workers,

Conference on Work and Inequality in the Global Economy: China, Mexico and the US,

Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UCLA, Fall 2009.

Child Labor: Implications for Family Law, Family Law Summer Camp, Harvard Law

School, Summer 2009.

Towards Third-Party Liability for Wage Theft

- Law and Society Association Conference, Denver Colorado, May 2009

- May Gathering conference at U.Va. Law, May 2009

- Third Annual Colloquium on New Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law, San

Diego, California, October 2008

Paradoxes of Free Choice In Contemporary Labor Law, Law and Society Association

Conference, Montreal Quebec, June 2008

Financialization and Workers Rights (panelist), National Law Students Workers Rights

Conference, October 2007

Lecture, Harvard Program on Law and Social Thought s Book Trouble Series, reading

Karl Klare s Judicial Deradicalization of the Wagner Act and the Origins of Modern

Legal Consciousness, April 2006

The Transformation of U.S. Labor and Employment Law, 1935-2000, Interuniversity

Centre for the Comparative Analysis of Law, Economics, and Institutions, at Fondazione

Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin Italy, May 2005

BAR ADMISSIONS

New York State, 2007 (inactive)

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