Private Law Theory Meets the Law of Work

8:45 – 9:00

9:00 – 9:45

The Classical Liberal Version of Labor Law: Beware of Coercion Dressed up as Liberty, Richard Epstein

First Commentator: Alan L. Bogg

Second Commentator: Frank K Upham

9:45 –10:30 

Employment Law’s Other Public-Private Distinction, Sophia Z. Lee

First Commentator: Benjamin C. Zipursky

Second Commentator: William E. Forbath

10:30 – 10:45

Break

10:45 – 11:30

Can Contract Emancipate? Contract Theory and The Law of Work, Hanoch Dagan & Michael Heller

First Commentator: Jeremy Waldron 

Second Commentator: Virginia Mantouvalou

11:30  – 12:15

Are Workers’ Rights Internal to Property Rights?, Cynthia Estlund

First Commentator: Thomas W. Merrill

Second Commentator; Kate Andrias

12:15 – 13:30

Lunch in NY, Dinner in TLV

13:30  – 14:15

Good Faith in Employment, Sabine Tsuruda

First Commentator: Liam B. Murphy

Second Commentator: Hila Shamir

9:00 – 9:45

Relational Justice in Work, Hugh Collins

First Commentator: Roy Kreitner

Second Commentator: Kevin E. Davis

Nondomination and the Ambitions of Employment Law, Aditi Bagchi

First Commentator: Richard R.W. Brooks

Second Commentator: Yishai Blank

Break

The Tort Law of Workplace, Avihay Dorfman

FIrst Commentator: Brishen Roger

Second Commentator: Mark Geistfeld

Ownership prerogatives and labour control in employment status disputes, Julia Tomassetti

FIrst Commentator: Katrina M. Wyman

Second Commentator: Guy Mundlak

Closing discussion 

Chair: Cynthia Estlund

Opening Remarks: William E. Forbath and Hanoch Dagan 

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