Benjamin Sachs

Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Labor Law
• Immigration Law
• Law of the Workplace

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Immigration Law
• Labor Law

Education

• Oberlin College B.A. 1993
• Yale Law School J.D. 1998

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 2008-2011
• Professor of Law, 2012

Biographical Statement

Benjamin Sachs is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School where he teaches labor law, employment law, and the workshop on law and social change. Prior to joining the faculty in 2008, Professor Sachs was the Joseph Goldstein Fellow at Yale Law School where was awarded the 2007 Yale Law School Teaching Award. From 2002-2006, he served as Assistant General Counsel of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in Washington, D.C., and from 1999-2002 he worked at Make the Road by Walking (a membership-based community organization in Brooklyn, NY). Professor Sachs graduated from Yale Law School in 1998, and served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. His writing has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the New York Times and elsewhere.

Representative Publications

• Sachs, Benjamin. "Unions, Corporations, and Political Opt-Out Rights After 'Citizens United'," 112 Columbia Law Review 800 (2012).
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• Sachs, Benjamin. "Despite Preemption: Making Labor Law in Cities and States," 124 Harvard Law Review 1153 (2011).
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• Sachs, Benjamin. "David E. Feller Memorial Labor Law Lecture: Revitalizing Labor Law," 31 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 333 (2011).
  
• Sachs, Benjamin. "Enabling Employee Choice: A Structural Approach to the Rules of Union Organizing," 123 Harvard Law Review 655 (2010).
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• Sachs, Benjamin. "Reinhardt at Work," 120 Yale Law Journal 573 (2010).
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• Sachs, Benjamin. "Employment Law as Labor Law," 29 Cardozo Law Review 2685 (2008).
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• Sachs, Benjamin. "Labor Law Renewal," 1 Harvard Law & Policy Review 375 (2007).
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Bibliography

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