In the second blogcast of the new Power At Work series "What Could Happen Under Trump?", Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by two top labor law academics Ben Sachs, the Kestnbaum Professor of Labor and Industry at Harvard Law School, and Charlotte Garden, a Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. Listen now to learn about what to expect in labor law under the second Trump administration alongside controversies that we should be prepared for.
Power At Work's blogcast series "What Could Happen Under Trump?" will continue moving into this new administration with several episodes seeking answers to that question. This series will evaluate how Trump will impact aspects of labor law, policy, economics, and politics with the help of a long list of experts. To make sure you stay updated on "What Could Happen Under Trump?", subscribe for free to Power At Work today at the bottom of the front page of the website.
Ben Sachs is the Kestnbaum Professor of Labor and Industry at Harvard Law School and a leading expert in the field of labor law and labor relations. He is also the faculty director of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy. Professor Sachs teaches courses in labor law, employment law, and law and social change, and his writing focuses on union organizing and unions in American politics. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 2008, Professor Sachs was the Joseph Goldstein Fellow at Yale Law School. 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 was an attorney at Make the Road by Walking, a membership-based community organization in Brooklyn, NY.
Charlotte Garden is a Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School. She joined the faculty in Fall 2022 and specializes in labor law, employment law, and constitutional law. Her interests include the intersection of workers' rights and the Constitution, and how law supports (or undermines) worker voice and power. Professor Garden's scholarship has appeared in several leading law reviews alongside publishing her edited volume The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law For the Twenty-First Century (co-edited with Rick Bales) in 2019 by Cambridge University Press. Professor Garden is active in national policy efforts to strengthen workers' rights shown through her involvement in projects such as the Economic Policy Institute's Unequal Power Project and the Clean Slate for Worker Power project. Before coming to the University of Minnesota, Professor Garden was a professor at Seattle University School of Law.
