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Present	Assistant Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law
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Law and Labor and Employment Law

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Labor Law and Employment Law

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	B.A., Columbia University
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	J.D., Harvard Law School
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Contributions to Books (2)

Legal Avoidance and the Restructuring of Work (Charlotte S. Alexander) The Structuring of Work in Organizations (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume 47) (2016)

This essay posits that legal avoidance - employers' search for forms of employment to which labor and employment laws do not apply - is an important driver of the restructuring of work. It examines three ...

Developing Professional Judgment: Law School Innovations in Response to the Carnegie Foundation's Critique of American Legal Education (Clark D. Cunningham and Charlotte S. Alexander) The Ethics Project in Legal Education (2011)

In 2007, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching issued a book-length report on American legal education, criticizing American law schools and issuing a call for reform. This book chapter draws on concepts from ...

Articles (19)

The Hacking of Employment Law (Charlotte S. Alexander and Elizabeth Tippett) Missouri Law Review (2017)

Transmitting the Costs of Unsafe Work (Charlotte S. Alexander) American Business Law Journal (2017)

This article investigates the ways in which employers are made to "feel" the costs generated by workers' occupational illnesses and injuries. In economic terms, many of those costs are externalized, i.e. experienced by parties other ...

Incentivizing and Protecting OSH Whistleblowers (Charlotte S. Alexander) Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) (2017)

Misclassification and Antidiscrimination: An Empirical Analysis (Charlotte S. Alexander) Minnesota Law Review (2017)

This article investigates misclassification and antidiscrimination. Misclassification is employers' practice of classifying workers as independent contractors whom the law would categorize as employees. Misclassified workers are exempt from most federal antidiscrimination statutes, unless they file ...

When Timekeeping Software Undermines Compliance (Elizabeth Tippett, Charlotte S. Alexander and Zev J Eigen) Yale Journal of Law and Technology (2017)

Electronic timekeeping is a ubiquitous feature of the modern workplace. Time and attendance software enables employers to record employees' hours worked, breaks taken, and related data to determine compensation. Sometimes this software also undermines wage ...

Workplace Information-Forcing: Constitutionality and Effectiveness (Charlotte S. Alexander) American Business Law Journal (2016)

"Know-your-rights" posters are ubiquitous in the American workplace, as employers are required by statute or regulation to display numerous notices about workers' rights on the job. These posters were relatively uncontroversial until a recent set ...

Gaming the System: The Exemption of Professional Sports Teams From the Fair Labor Standards Act (Charlotte S. Alexander and Nathaniel Grow) U.C. Davis Law Review (2015)

This article examines a little known exemption to the Fair Labor Standards Act relieving seasonal recreational or amusement employers from their obligation to pay the minimum wage and overtime. After evaluating the existing, confused case ...

Transparency and Transmission: Theorizing Information's Role in Regulatory and Market Responses to Workplace Problems (Charlotte S. Alexander) Connecticut Law Review (2015)

This Essay develops a comprehensive theory of the role of information in regulatory and market responses to workplace problems. Existing legal and economic scholarship has focused narrowly on transparency mandates that reveal facts about the ...

Underwork, Work-Hour Insecurity, and a New Approach to Wage and Hour Regulation (Charlotte S. Alexander and Anna Haley-Lock) Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society (2015)

When it was passed in 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) sought to address the “evils” of underpay and overwork by establishing an hourly minimum wage and requiring premium overtime pay. However, today's low‐wage, ...

Post-Racial Hydraulics: The Hidden Dangers of the Universal Turn (Zev J. Eigen, Camille Gear Rich and Charlotte S Alexander) University of Southern California Legal Studies Working Paper Series (2015)

In recent years, antidiscrimination scholars have focused on the productive possibilities of the “universal turn,” a strategy that calls on attorneys to convert particularist claims, like race discrimination claims, into broader universalist claims that secure ...

Stabilizing Low-Wage Work (Charlotte S. Alexander, Anna Haley-Lock and Nantiya Ruan) Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (2015)

Low-wage, hourly-paid service workers are increasingly subject to employers' "just-in-time" scheduling practices. In a just-in-time model, employers give workers little advance notice of their schedules, call workers in to work during non-scheduled times to meet ...

Bottom-Up Workplace Law Enforcement (Charlotte S Alexander and Arthi Prasad) 89 Indiana Law Journal 1069 (2014) (2014)

This Article presents an original analysis of newly available data from a landmark survey of 4387 low-wage, front-line workers in the three largest U.S. cities. We analyze data on worker claims, retaliation, and legal knowledge ...

Address Working Poverty by Promoting Work Hour Security in Low-Wage Hourly Jobs (Anna Haley-Lock, Charlotte S. Alexander and Nantiya Ruan) Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity (2014)

Anticipatory Retaliation, Threats, and the Silencing of the Brown Collar Workforce (Charlotte S. Alexander) American Business Law Journal (2013)

“Anticipatory retaliation” refers to employers’ preemptive attempts to silence potential future worker opposition to substandard or illegal employment practices. Especially in “brown collar” workplaces that primarily employ low-wage, often undocumented, immigrants, anticipatory, retaliatory threats may ...

Explaining Peripheral Labor: A Poultry Industry Case Study (Charlotte S. Alexander) Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law (2012)

Learning to be Lawyers: Professional Identity and the Law School Curriculum (Charlotte S. Alexander) Maryland Law Review (2011)

Would an Opt In Requirement Fix the Class Action Settlement? Evidence from the Fair Labor Standards Act (Charlotte S. Alexander) Mississippi Law Journal (2010)

It is frequently stated in the class action literature that many Rule 23(b)(3) class action plaintiffs recover only a fraction of their claimed losses in settlement. Class action critics blame these low recovery-loss ratios on ...

The National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism (Clark D. Cunningham and Charlotte S. Alexander) Georgia Bar Journal (2009)

Come Down and Make Bargains in Good Faith: The Application of 42 U.S.C. 1981 to Discrimination in Retail Stores (Charlotte S. Alexander) Hastings Race & Poverty Law Journal (2007)

This article examines and critiques courts’ narrow interpretations of 42 U.S.C. § 1981 in race and national origin discrimination cases brought by retail shoppers and offers a model for improved § 1981 decision-making. Section 1981, ...

Popular Press (1)

Georgia State University Opens Groundbreaking New Legal Analytics Lab (Charlotte S. Alexander) Saporta Report (2017)

Unpublished Papers (1)

Would an Opt In Requirement Stop Class Action Strike Suits and Sweetheart Deals? Evidence from the Fair Labor Standards Act (Charlotte S Alexander) ExpressO (2010)

It is frequently stated in the class action literature that many Rule 23(b)(3) class action plaintiffs recover only a fraction of their claimed losses in settlement. Class action critics blame these low recovery-loss ratios on ...

Other (2)

Another Set of Eyes: A New-Old Proposal to Combat Wage Theft (Charlotte S. Alexander) Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) (2015)

Study on Women's Experiences at Harvard Law School (Charlotte S. Alexander and Working Group on Student Experiences) Faculty Publications By Year (2004)

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