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The Power Hour #8: Democracy Under Attack: Lieberwitz and Reddy on Unions, Universities, the Supreme Court, and more!

Jul 15, 2024
58:59

In this edition of The Power Hour, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Risa Lieberwitz, a Professor of Labor and Employment Law in the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR); and Diana Reddy, an Assistant Professor in UC Berkeley's School of Law; to discuss changes and infringement's on democracy taking place in labor unions, universities in the U.S., recent Supreme Court decisions, and more.

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Risa L. Lieberwitz is a Professor of Labor and Employment Law in the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), where she has been a professor since 1982. She is an academic director in the Worker Institute at Cornell and a co-director of the Cornell University Law and Society minor. Lieberwitz currently holds an appointment as General Counsel of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). She has also served as a member of AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure.

Diana Reddy joined UC Berkeley School of Law as an Assistant Professor in 2023. Her research focuses on the regulation of work as a site where critical choices are made about the relationship between American economic commitments and its democratic ideals. Before her return to academia, Diana represented labor unions and workers at the AFL-CIO, Altshuler Berzon LLP, and the California Teachers Association. She received her JD, magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, from NYU School of Law, where she was also a Root-Tilden-Kern scholar. Diana clerked for Judge Theodore McKee on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Kimba Wood on the Southern District of New York. 

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