Benjamin Sachs

Assistant 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

Biographical Statement

Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard Law School in 2008, Benjamin Sachs was the Joseph Goldstein Fellow at Yale Law School. At Yale, he taught Emerging Trends in Labor Law and was awarded the Yale Law School Teaching Award in 2007. From 2002-2006, Professor Sachs served as Assistant General Counsel of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in Washington, D.C. Before joining the SEIU legal department, he worked at Make the Road by Walking (a membership-based community organization in Brooklyn, NY) where he co-founded the Workplace Justice Project. 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. Before entering law school, he worked as an Industrial Relations Specialist at the United States Department of Labor.

Representative Publications

• Sachs, Benjamin. "Employee Choice: A New Altering Rule for Labor Law's Asymmetric Default," 123 Harvard Law Review (forthcoming 2010).
  
• Sachs, Benjamin. "Employment Law as Labor Law," 29 Cardozo Law Review 2685 (2008).
  
• Sachs, Benjamin. "Labor Law Renewal," 1 Harvard Law & Policy Review 375 (2007).
  

Bibliography

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