Presentations
2021
“The Redistributive Value of the Minimum Wage,” Workshop at Tel Aviv University, December, 2021
“Race and Reification,” 18th Annual Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS University of London, November, 2021
“Intellectual Property and Income Inequality,” Imframarginalism & Internet, University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law, February, 2021
2019
“Marx, Legal Positivism, and Sovereignty,” 16th Annual Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS University of London, November, 2019
2018
“Critical Labor Law: A Critique,” Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, November, 2018 (invited)
“The Comparative Political Economy of the Minimum Wage” (with Brett Meyer), American Law and Economics Association, Boston University School of Law, May, 2018
2017
“Comparative Models of Sectoral Bargaining,” Labor Law Reform Symposium, Harvard Law School, September 2017, Cambridge, Massachusetts (invited panelist)
“The Law and Economics of Redistribution,” UNLV Boyd School of Law, September 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada (invited)
“The Politics of Wage Regulation in Rich Democracies” (with Brett Meyer), Labour Law Research Network Conference, 2017, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
“The Politics of Wage Regulation in Rich Democracies” (with Brett Meyer), Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association, 2017, Mexico City
“Equity and Efficiency in Liability Rules,” Stanford University, Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, June 2017, 2017 Junior Faculty Forum
2016
“Labor Market Institutions and Redistributive Voting,” Duke University Department of Political Science, Political Economy Workshop, February 2016
2015
“Progressive Taxation and Redistribution” (with Daniel Stegmueller), 111th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2015, San Francisco
“The Politics of Low-Wage Work in the Wealthy West” (now “The Politics of Wage Regulation in Rich Democracies”) (with Brett Meyer), 111th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2015, San Francisco
“The Altruistic Rich? Inequality and Other-Regarding Preferences for Redistribution,” (with David Rueda and Daniel Stegmueller) American Law and Economics Association, May, 2015, ColumbiaUniversity Law School
2014
“Risk, Redistribution, and Progressivity” (now “Political Economy of Risk and Ideology”) (withDaniel Stegmueller), 73rd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2014, Chicago
“Inequality, Fairness, and Preferences for Redistribution” (with David Rueda and Daniel Stegmueller), 110th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 2014, Washington, D.C.
“Wage-Setting Institutions and Corporate Governance,” 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, June, 2014, Chicago
“Labor Power and Employer Organizations,” 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, June, 2014, Chicago
“Wage-Setting Institutions and Corporate Governance,” American Law and Economics Association, May, 2014, University of Chicago Law School
“Inequality, Labor-Market Institutions, and Redistributive Voting,” 72nd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2014, Chicago
“Inequality, Fairness, and Preferences for Redistribution” (with David Rueda and Daniel Stegmueller), 72nd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, April, 2014, Chicago
“Inequality, Fairness, and Preferences for Redistribution” (with David Rueda and Daniel Stegmueller), 21st International Conference of Europeanists, March, 2014, Washington, D.C.
“Productive Unionism,” Douglas Cunningham Lecture, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, March 2014, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (invited)
“Labor-Market Institutions and Redistributive Voting,” Comparative Political Economy Seminar, University of Oxford, December, 2014 (invited)
2013
“Labor Market Institutions and Redistributive Voting,” 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, June 2013, University of Milan, Italy
“Labor Market Institutions and Redistributive Voting,” Labour Law Research Network Inaugural Conference, June 2013, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
“What Do Labor Laws Do?” American Law and Economics Association, May, 2013, Vanderbilt Law School
“Productive Unionism,” University of California, Irvine Law Review Symposium: Re-Imagining Labor Law: Building Worker Collectivities After the NLRA, February, 2013
2012
“Reciprocity and Redistribution,” ClassCrits V Workshop, November, 2012, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“What Do Labor Laws Do?” CRIMT, October, 2012, HEC Montréal, Québec, Canada
“What Do Labor Laws Do?” Labor and Employment Law Colloquium, September 2012, Northwestern University Law School and Loyola University Chicago School of Law
“What Do Labor Laws Do?” 24th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, June, 2012, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Unions, Employers and Social Policy Preferences,” Democracy and the Workplace Conference, February, 2012 (invited), Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2011
“Labor Law and Union Strength in 21 OECD Countries,” Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, November, 2011, Northwestern University Law School
“Security, Efficiency, and Public Sector Labor Law,” University of Toledo Law Review Symposium: Public Sector Labor Law: At the Crossroads, October, 2011 (invited)
“Labor Law, New Governance, and the Ghent System,” Law and Society Association Annual Meetings, 2011, San Francisco, CA
2010
“Paths to Power: Labor Law, Union Density, and the Ghent System,” paper selected for presentation at the Fifth Annual Seton Hall Employment and Labor Law Scholar’s Forum, October 2010
“Paths to Power: Labor Law, Union Density, and the Ghent System,” Labor and Employment Law Colloquium, September 2010, Washington University Law School and St. Louis University Law School
“Revitalizing Union Democracy: Labor Law, Bureaucracy, and Workplace Associations,” Law and Society Association Annual Meetings, 2010, Chicago, IL
2009
“Revitalizing Labor Union Democracy: Labor Law, Bureaucracy, and Workplace Associations,” Midwestern Law and Economics Association Annual Meetings, 2009, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“A Profession of Its Own: The Rise of Health Information Professionals in American Healthcare” (with Mark C. Suchman), American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, 2009, San Francisco, CA
2008
“Hospitals, HIPAA, and the Politics of PARO: Modeling and Measuring Heterogeneous Organizational Postures Toward Legal Change” (with Mark C. Suchman and Sarah Swider), American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, 2008, Boston, MA
2006
“Political Transitions in Warring States” (with Scott Gehlbach), International Society for the New Institutional Economics Annual Conference, 2006, Boulder, CO
“Arma et Leges: A Critique of Michael Mann’s Concept of the State,” American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, 2006, Montréal, Québec, Canada
2005
“Taming the Market for Medical Information: ‘Sharing is (S)caring’ on the Digital Frontier” (with Mark C. Suchman and Karen S. Schaepe), American Sociological Association Annual Meetings and Law and Society Association Annual Meetings, 2005, Philadelphia, PA
2004
“Of Land and Lordship: Class Structure, Class Formation, and the Origins of Property in Early Medieval England,” American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, 2004, San Francisco, CA