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Jeffrey Hirsch

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


Selected Publications

Articles and Essays

Communication Breakdown:  Reviving the Role of Discourse in the Regulation of Employee Collective Action, 44 UC Davis Law Review __ (forthcoming 2011).
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Defending the NLRB:  Improving the Agency’s Success in the Federal Courts of Appeal, __ Florida International University Law Review __ (forthcoming 2011) (invited symposium article).

Revolution in Pragmatist Clothing:  Nationalizing Workplace Law, 61 Alabama Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2010) (selected for the 2008 Seton Hall Third Annual Employment and Labor Law Scholars’ Forum). SSRN link

Making Globalism Work for Employees, 54 Saint Louis University Law Journal427 (2010) (invited symposium article). SSRN link

Paper Rights or Real Rights?, 157 University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNumbra 45 (2008) (Closing Statement in Workplace Federalism debate with Paul M. Secunda). SSRN link

The True Irony of Workplace Law:  Less Is More, 157 University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNumbra 33 (2008) (Rebuttal in Workplace Federalism debate with Paul M. Secunda). SSRN link

The Law of Termination:  Doing More With Less, 68 Maryland Law Review 89 (2008). SSRN link

Rent-To-Own Unionism?, 94Virginia Law Review In Brief 9 (2008). SSRN link

Taking States Out of the Workplace, 117 Yale Law Journal Pocket Part 225 (2008). SSRN link

The Silicon Bullet:  Will the Internet Kill the NLRA?, 76 George Washington Law Review 262 (2008). SSRN link

The Rise and Fall of Private Sector Unionism:  What Next for the NLRA?, 34 Florida State University Law Review 1133 (2007) (with Barry T. Hirsch). SSRN link

Taking State Property Rights Out of Federal Labor Law, 47 Boston College Law Review 891 (2006). SSRN link

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

Allowance Trading Under the Clean Air Act:  A Model for Future Environmental Regulations?, 7 N.Y.U. Environmental Law Journal 352 (1999) (Student Note). Journal link

Labor Law Obstacles to the Collective Negotiation and Implementation of Employee Stock Ownership Plans:  A Response to Henry Hansmann and Other “Survivalists,” 67 Fordham Law Review 957 (1998). SSRN link

Books, Book Chapters, and Proceeding Papers

Mastering Employment Discrimination Law (forthcoming 2010) (with Paul M. Secunda).

Introduction to Balls or Strikes: Are Economic Weapons Finding the Zone, in Reversing Field:  Examining Commercialization, Labor, Gender, and Race in the 21st Century Sports Law (andré douglas pond cummings & Anne Marie Lofaso eds., forthcoming 2010).

Standard of Review, in A Practitioner’s Guide to Appellate Advocacy (Anne Marie Lofaso ed., 2010).

E-Mail and the Rip Van Winkle of Agencies: The NLRB’s Register-Guard Decision, in Workplace Privacy:  Here and Abroad—Proceedings of the New York University 61st Annual Conference on Labor (Jonathan Nash ed., 2010).

Compensation, Work Hours and Benefits—Proceedings of the New York University 57th Annual Conference on Labor (Editor, 2009).

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., 2009), reprinted in 6 ICFAI Journal of Employment Law 50 (2008).

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

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 Samuel Estreicher).

State Property Law and the Federal Right of Nonemployee Access to Property:  A Rebuttal, __ Transactions:  The Tennessee Journal of Business Law __ (forthcoming 2010) (invited rebuttal to a forthcoming article discussing my research in the area).

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

Job Tasks and the NLRA’s Supervisory Exclusion Rule:  An Empirical Assessment of the Supervisory Rule’s Impact on Union Density (Article) (with Barry T. Hirsch).