Workplace Law Program Speaker Series with Seth Harris

Workplace Law Program Speaker Series

Monday, March 25, 2019
Thomas and Mack Moot Court Room
6:00 PM – 7:15 PM • Meet and Greet at 5:15 PM

Registration is required. Please register here

Seth D. Harris
Visiting Professor, Cornell University
Institute for Public Affairs

Presenting:

Workers, Benefits, and Protections in the U.S. Gig Economy

Seth D. Harris was the 11th United States Deputy Secretary of Labor, and served for six months as the Acting U.S. Secretary of Labor and a member of President Barack Obama's Cabinet. Nominated by President Obama in February 2009, Harris was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate in May 2009, and became acting Secretary of Labor in January 2013. For nine years prior to joining the Obama Administration, Harris was a Professor of Law and Director of Labor & Employment Law Programs at New York Law School. Harris’s scholarship focused on the economics of labor and employment law, with a particular emphasis on the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act. He has also written about the National LaborRelations Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, worker organizing, and employment discrimination laws in general. Since leaving the Obama Administration, Harris has been a Distinguished Scholar at Cornell University's School of Industrial & Labor Relations, and Counsel in the Public Policy & Regulation and Employment & Labor practices of Dentons, a global law firm, before establishing his own law office, Seth Harris Law and Policy (sethharrislaw.com).