Cynthia Estlund is the Catherine A. Rein Professor at the New York University School of Law, and a leading scholar of labor and employment law. Her writings explore workplace regulation and governance; freedom of expression and procedural fairness at work; diversity, integration, and affirmative action; and many aspects of collective labor law, both in the U.S. and in comparative perspective. Her forthcoming book, A New Deal for China’s Workers? (Harvard Univ. Press, 2017), offers a comparative perspective on reform and its limits in the wake of rising labor unrest in China. An earlier book, Regoverning the Workplace: From Self-Regulation to Co-Regulation (Yale Univ. Press, 2010), mines current trends in regulatory practice to suggest a potential path toward participatory workplace governance in a post-collective bargaining era. In Working Together: How Workplace Bonds Strengthen a Diverse Democracy (Oxford Univ. Press, 2003), she argued that the convergence of diversity, cooperation, and sociability make the workplace a distinctive source of social capital, with important implications for democratic theory and for the law of work.
Estlund got her B.A. (summa cum laude) from Lawrence University, and her J.D. from Yale Law School. After clerking for Judge Patricia M. Wald on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Estlund practiced law for several years, and then taught at the University of Texas School of Law and Columbia Law School before moving to the NYU School of Law in 2006.
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