Workplace Theory & Policy Workshop: Dr. Diana Reddy

Diana S. Reddy⁵, Law, University of California Berkeley Law: Discrimination as Exploitation

Diana Reddy is a law professor and the faculty co-director for the Center for Law and Work at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she teaches courses about the regulation of work, the role of labor unions in American democracy, and the relationship between economic justice and civil rights. Her scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, and the Emory Law Journal, among others, and her shorter commentary can be found in outlets like the LPE Blog, the ACS Expert Forum, the Drift, and Power at Work. Diana is also a Research Fellow with the Roosevelt Institute’s Worker Power and Economic Security Program. Prior to entering legal academia, Diana was a litigator, representing labor unions and workers at the AFL-CIO, Altshuler Berzon LLP, and the California Teachers Association. She has a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from UC Berkeley, and received her law degree, magna cum laude, from NYU School of Law, where she was a Root Tilden Kern Scholar. After law school, Diana clerked for Judge Kimba Wood of the Southern District of New York and Judge Theodore McKee of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Diana sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Law and Political Economy, serves as an expert speaker on labor issues and economic inequality for the LPE Project, and is an advisor to several workers’ centers and nonprofits.

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