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Cynthia Estlund

Catherine A. Rein Professor of Law

New York University School of Law


Cynthia Estlund is the Catherine A. Rein Professor at the New York University School of Law.  Her newest book is Automating the Future: Why and How to Save and Spread Work in a World With Less of It (Oxford U. Press, 2021).  She has published widely on the law and regulation of work, including three earlier books:  A New Deal for China’s Workers? (Harvard, 2017); Regoverning the Workplace: From Self-Regulation to Co-Regulation (Yale, 2010); and Working Together: How Workplace Bonds Strengthen a Diverse Democracy (Oxford, 2003).  She has also produced two co-edited volumes and over seventy articles, book chapters, reviews, and essays on a range of topics in both collective labor law and employment law.