Jeffrey M. Hirsch

Associate Professor of Law
B.A., 1992, University of Virginia
M.P.P., 1995, William & Mary
J.D., 1998, New York University

Labor Law, Law of the Workplace, Employment Discrimination, and Federal Courts

Mail to: Hirsch@law.utk.edu
SSRN Author Page: http://ssrn.com/author=84048

Professor Hirsch joined the UT law faculty in August 2004 after working for four years in the Appellate Court Branch of the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C. He received a J.D. degree from New York University in 1998 and, following graduation, was a judicial clerk for the Honorable Haldane R. Mayer on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Honorable Robert R. Beezer on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. While in law school, Professor Hirsch received the ABA/BNA Prize for excellence in labor and employment law and the Seymour M. Goldstein Prize for academic excellence in labor relations. Since his arrival at the UT College of Law, he has received the Marilyn V. Yarbrough Faculty Award for Writing Excellence for his article in the Boston College Law Review. Professor Hirsch is also a contributing editor for the Workplace Prof Blog.

Publications

       Articles and Essays:

Regulatory Pragmatism At Work, selected for the 2008 Seton Hall Annual Labor & Employment Law Scholars’ Forum.

State or Federal Labor Regulation?  __ Univ. Pennsylvania L. Rev. PENNumbra __ (forthcoming 2008) (Debate, with Paul Secunda).

The Law of Termination: Doing More With Less, 69 Maryland L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2008).

Taking States Out of the Workplace, 117 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 225 (2008). 

Rent-To-Own Unionism?, 94 Virginia L. Rev. In Brief 9 (2008).

The Silicon Bullet: Will the Internet Kill the NLRA?, 76 George Washington L. Rev. 262 (2008).

The Rise and Fall of Private Sector Unionism: What Next for the NLRA?, 34 Florida State Univ. L. Rev. 1133 (2007) (with Barry T. Hirsch).

Taking State Property Rights Out Of Federal Labor Law, 47 Boston College L. Rev. 891 (2006).

Can Congress Use Its War Powers To Protect Military Employees from State Sovereign Immunity?, 34 Seton Hall L. Rev. 999 (2004).

Allowance Trading Under the Clean Air Act: A Model for Future Environmental Regulations?, 7 N.Y.U. Environmental L.J. 352 (1999).

Labor Law Obstacles to the Collective Negotiation and Implementation of Employee Stock Ownership Plans: A Response to Henry Hansmann and Other "Survivalists," 63 Fordham L. Rev. 957 (1998).

       Books, Book Chapters, and Proceeding Papers:

Employee Collective Action in a Global Economy, in Encyclopedia of Labor and Employment Law and Economics (Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Seth D. Harris & Orly Lobel eds.) (forthcoming 2008).

Understanding Employment Law (2007) (with Richard Bales & Paul M. Secunda).

Standard of Review, in A Practioner's Guide to Appellate Advocacy (Anne Marie Lofaso ed., forthcoming 2007).

The NLRA After Seventy Years: What Next?, in Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting, Labor & Employment Relations Association Series 133 (2006) (with Barry T. Hirsch).

Labor Law Obstacles to the Collective Negotiation and Implementation of Employee Stock Ownership Plans, in Proceedings of the N.Y.U. 50th Annual Conference on Labor 643 (Samuel Estreicher ed., 1998).

Works In Progress

Unjust Dismissal Laws: An International Perspective (Article) (with Sam Estreicher).

Global Issues in Labor Law (2nd ed.) (with Sam Estreicher).

Proceedings of the N.Y.U. 57th Annual Conference on Labor (Editor).

Achievements and Affiliations

Chair, Southeastern Association of Law School's New Scholars Committee.

Member, NYU Center for Labor and Employment Law, Recent Graduate Advisors.

Admitted to the bar of the State of New York.

Admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, D.C., and Federal Circuits.

Updated July 17, 2008