Marion Crain
Phone: (314) 935-3459
Email: mgcrain@wulaw.wustl.eduAreas of Expertise: Election 2012,
unions,
collective bargaining,
public employee unions,
labor law,
employment law,
family Law,
labor movement,
employee benefits,
wage disparities,
Biography
Biography 2010
Professor Marion Crain, an expert in labor and employment law, directs the law school’s Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Work and Social Capital. Her scholarship examines the relationships among gender, work, and class status with a particular emphasis on collective action and labor relations. She is the author or co-author of a labor law casebook, an employment law casebook, and numerous law review articles and book chapters on labor and employment law, labor unionism, and the working poor. Professor Crain is chair-elect of the Labor Law Group, an international collective of labor and employment law professors who work collaboratively to improve labor and employment law pedagogy through the production of course materials, and serves on the editorial board of the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal. In addition to her legal research and scholarship, she received the David M. Becker Professor of the Year Award in 2009 for excellence in teaching. Her service to the law school and Washington University includes serving as a Faculty Fellow in the Office of the Provost; chairing the Decanal Review Committee; and chairing the Promotion & Tenure Committee. Before joining the law faculty, she practiced labor and employment law with Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles; clerked for the Hon. Arthur L. Alarcon, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; and taught at several other law schools.
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