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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Call for Papers: the Berkeley Law-Cornell ILR Junior Work Law Scholars Conference! Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Gali Racabi (@gracabi.bsky.social), assistant professor of labor & employment law at #CornellILR, comments on the legislative hurdles to banning AI-related layoffs in the U.S. (via @politico.com).

A potential AI labor lesson from China

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Join us at Berkeley Law, Sept. 17! DM or Email for questions. CFP will be out soonish!

New from me on OnLabor.org: "Employers ought to internalize the costs of dismantling and cutting holes into the national economic citizenship framework. . . . Waiting, stalling, and obfuscating are the employers’ tools. The question is what labor does next." onlabor.org/employers-sh...

OnLabor

A blog devoted to workers, unions, and their politics.

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Published. In Lieu of the NLRA. Still very much a project in progress. Tell me what you think! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Reading the acknowledgment section as an undergrad is a tell-tale sign of a young academic

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The corporate takeover of civil rights was embodied in private-sector DEI initiatives. But it wasn't about "weak" or "strong" civil rights, it was about who governs; and it wasn't about what corporations are, but about what courts wanted them to do: sort out civil rts lpeproject.org/blog/how-cor...

How Corporations Hijacked Identity Politics

Over the past fifty years, corporate advocates have co-opted the language and tactics of modern social movements to graft identity-based attributes onto the corporate entity. These new…

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Some more writing in the NYT about how Chavez's UFW leadership was based on personality worship, which, eventually, crashed the UFW. Things that were well-known in academic writings on Chavez and the inner circle of the UFW. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/u...

‘The Cult of Cesar’: Inside the Mountain Compound Led by Cesar Chavez

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Gali Racabi @gracabi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join us May 1st-2nd at Cornell University ILR School for a conference on Labor, Discipline, and the Carceral State. Wonderful speakers, beautiful spring in Ithaca, good vibes. events.cornell.edu/event/labor-...

Labor, Discipline and the Carceral State

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Save the date: Labor, Discipline and the Carceral State, Friday-Saturday, May 1-2, 2026, at Cornell University ILR School. events.cornell.edu/event/labor-...

Labor, Discipline and the Carceral State

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Doron Dorfman @dorfmandoron.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It was an honor to be @ohiostatelaw.bsky.social for a symposium honoring the work of the legendary Ruth Colker alongside many friends & mentors @katmacfarlane.bsky.social @sbagen.bsky.social @jasmineeharris.bsky.social @anneralph.bsky.social Jamelia Morgan, LaToya Baldwin Clark, Liz Emens & others

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Gali Racabi @gracabi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

As always, I invite Cornell University ILR School and Cornell Law School students to reach out if they would like to chat about the ME, Israel, Iran, Gaza, and their interrelations with campus life/politics. No preaching, no solutions, a lot of active listening, and coffee on me.

Gali Racabi @gracabi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Super interesting.

Kim Krawiec@kimkrawiec.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch in Pahrump have filed to unionize with CWA. A majority have signed cards—but to proceed they must establish that they are employees, not independent contractors. My latest post examines how classification doctrine shapes whether courtesans can organize.

Gali Racabi @gracabi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Going to Berkeley School of Law next week to present my work on state alternatives to the National Labor Relations Act. Come say hi if you are around!

@alvinvelazquez @alvinvelazquez.bsky.social · 8mo ago

@gracabi.bsky.social outlines what could happen in his paper "In Lieu of the NLRA" here. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

In Lieu of the NLRA

The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) deteriorates from constitutional attacks and political sabotage. As labor law buckles, its preemption regime, a keystone

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Gali Racabi @gracabi.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Thrilled to share that I’m co-organizing the Columbia–Cornell Political Economy of Work Junior Scholars Workshop; our second year organizing the junior work law scholars.

Gali Racabi @gracabi.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Looking for good books/articles on prison abolition and defunding the police as alternative futures of criminal justice. What should I read/assign?

Gali Racabi @gracabi.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Come to ILR! www.ilr.cornell.edu/programs/mas...

Doron Dorfman @dorfmandoron.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I am just thrilled to have my new article Third-Party Accommodations officially out @michlawreview.bsky.social! The MLR editors were a pleasure to work with and sharing the same volume as @kovarsky.bsky.social & Daniel Fryer is the cherry on top. Read it: repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol124/i...

Third-Party Accommodations, Doron Dorfman
Abstract
Does disability rights law impose an obligation on employers, schools, and other places of public accommodation to control the behavior of coworkers, students, or other third parties to accommodate an individual with disabilities? This Article examines that unexplored legal question and shows that the law frequently fails to protect people with disabilities from the choices and behaviors of third parties. Judges often consider these major barriers to access beyond the reach of the Americans with Disabilities Act’s reasonable accommodation mandate. This Article argues that this problem results from improperly imposing the privity paradigm, a doctrine that limits the inquiry about the reasonableness of an accommodation relative to the relationship between the first party (the disabled individual) and the second party (the employer or other entity covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act). Using disability studies, legal theory, and political economy analysis, this Article shows how a narrow interpretation of the reasonable accommodation mandate has failed to adapt to our modern understanding of disability as a complex interaction between the impairment and the social environment. To address the issue, this Article introduces a new theory of third-party accommodations, which would require others to alter or cease behaviors to accommodate an individual with disabilities. This Article then suggests a normative framework that courts can use to analyze cases involving requests for third-party accommodations, including the factors that judges should balance to determine the reasonableness of a request. In highlighting the need to move beyond a constricted interpretation of reasonable accommodation, this Article imagines a new horizon for disability justice.

Doron Dorfman @dorfmandoron.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Amazon can either have a Constitutional NLRA preempting state law or an unconstitutional NLRA that opens the door for state regulations. They cannot have both. www.reuters.com/legal/govern... Wrote about it here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Amazon sues to block New York state labor law

Amazon.com sued the New York State Public Employment Relations Board on Monday to block it from enforcing a new law that the online retailer considers an attempt to illegally regulate private sector labor relations.

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We’re off to a great start at COSELL (Colloquium on Scholarship on Employment & Labor Law) 2025 hosted by Seton Hall Law! A fascinating panel “Expanding Labor Law” ft. Andrew Elmore (BU), Cesar Rosado (Iowa), and Jonathan Iwry (Wharton), moderated by @gracabi.bsky.social (Cornell ILR) 🥳

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Doron Dorfman@dorfmandoron.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thrilled to be hosting the 20th Annual Colloquium on Scholarship in Labor & Employment Law (COSELL) at Seton Hall Law tomorrow & on Saturday (Sep. 19-20). Over 70 legal scholars come to discuss cutting edge work on work! Check out the program: law.shu.edu/events/annua...

📖 Excited to see my article “DEI: Son of Deference” in print in the Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law! The idea first took shape at COSELL two years ago, thanks to the great feedback there, it’s now fully developed and published. Read on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This goes on the door! A new NY law, flipping the federal default by making the Board assert authority over private sector labor disputes. Wrote about it here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

By definition, if the NLRA is gone/powerless - states gain regulatory powers of labor relations. Be careful what you wish for, California employers. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

Grocer Sues NLRB Over Agency Judge, General Counsel Authority

A California grocery chain has sued the National Labor Relations Board, alleging its acting general counsel doesn’t have authority to bring labor charges against it and seeking to halt the agency’s pr...

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