Gali Racabi
@gracabi.bsky.social
Asst Prof at Cornell ILR. Teaching labor and employment law.
www.galiracabi.com
www.galiracabi.com
Looking for good books/articles on prison abolition and defunding the police as alternative futures of criminal justice. What should I read/assign?
November 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Looking for good books/articles on prison abolition and defunding the police as alternative futures of criminal justice. What should I read/assign?
Come to ILR!
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November 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Come to ILR!
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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...
October 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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...
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....
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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September 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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....
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Wrote about it here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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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) 🥳
September 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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) 🥳
📖 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....
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....
September 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
📖 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....
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....
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....
September 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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....
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.
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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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August 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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-...
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
From an outsider's point of view, the suggestion of a partisan makeup of a (hypothetical) labor court is bizarre. And if we're already doing institutional design, why not a tripartite labor court composed of workers, employers, and state representatives as judges?
onlabor.org/why-not-a-re...
onlabor.org/why-not-a-re...
Why Not a Real Labor Court? ✦ OnLabor
In case you missed it, the Fifth Circuit recently held that any employer charged with violating the National Labor Relations Act is entitled to an injunction to block any hearing from going forward. ...
onlabor.org
August 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
From an outsider's point of view, the suggestion of a partisan makeup of a (hypothetical) labor court is bizarre. And if we're already doing institutional design, why not a tripartite labor court composed of workers, employers, and state representatives as judges?
onlabor.org/why-not-a-re...
onlabor.org/why-not-a-re...
"The time has come for the labor movement and its lawyers to come to terms with the disintegration of federal labor governance."
My paper, now in more complete form, is forthcoming at the Wisconsin Law Review.
Available at SSRN here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
My paper, now in more complete form, is forthcoming at the Wisconsin Law Review.
Available at SSRN here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
August 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"The time has come for the labor movement and its lawyers to come to terms with the disintegration of federal labor governance."
My paper, now in more complete form, is forthcoming at the Wisconsin Law Review.
Available at SSRN here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
My paper, now in more complete form, is forthcoming at the Wisconsin Law Review.
Available at SSRN here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Today I started my 4th year teaching Intro to Labor and Employment Law at Cornell ILR.
For our first class, we do a contract reading exercise, going over employment contracts assigned to groups of interns, associates, and executives. We then spot legal issues and try to negotiate solutions.
Cool!
For our first class, we do a contract reading exercise, going over employment contracts assigned to groups of interns, associates, and executives. We then spot legal issues and try to negotiate solutions.
Cool!
August 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Today I started my 4th year teaching Intro to Labor and Employment Law at Cornell ILR.
For our first class, we do a contract reading exercise, going over employment contracts assigned to groups of interns, associates, and executives. We then spot legal issues and try to negotiate solutions.
Cool!
For our first class, we do a contract reading exercise, going over employment contracts assigned to groups of interns, associates, and executives. We then spot legal issues and try to negotiate solutions.
Cool!
Reposted by Gali Racabi
Thrilled to have my work on Third-Party Accommodations (forth. @michlawreview.bsky.social) featured on the Chemical Sensitivity Podcast (@podcastingmcs.bsky.social) that amplifies voices of people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) & research about the illness. Take a listen: shorturl.at/RbT4e
August 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Thrilled to have my work on Third-Party Accommodations (forth. @michlawreview.bsky.social) featured on the Chemical Sensitivity Podcast (@podcastingmcs.bsky.social) that amplifies voices of people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) & research about the illness. Take a listen: shorturl.at/RbT4e
First time teaching labor and employment law as an offline class - no laptops, phones, etc.
The packet I'll use is a modified version of my open-access textbook, freely available here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The packet I'll use is a modified version of my open-access textbook, freely available here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
August 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
First time teaching labor and employment law as an offline class - no laptops, phones, etc.
The packet I'll use is a modified version of my open-access textbook, freely available here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The packet I'll use is a modified version of my open-access textbook, freely available here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The final version of "DEI as Deference" is now available on SSRN.
In it, I argue that DEI rose out of judicial deference to employers. Fifty-year deference annointed employers as civil rights' governors of the workplace, a legal period that is currently changing.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
In it, I argue that DEI rose out of judicial deference to employers. Fifty-year deference annointed employers as civil rights' governors of the workplace, a legal period that is currently changing.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
DEI: Son of Deference
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Employers gained power over civil rights matters in a particular historical context. In the 1970s, courts solved legal debates about affirmative action a
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August 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The final version of "DEI as Deference" is now available on SSRN.
In it, I argue that DEI rose out of judicial deference to employers. Fifty-year deference annointed employers as civil rights' governors of the workplace, a legal period that is currently changing.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
In it, I argue that DEI rose out of judicial deference to employers. Fifty-year deference annointed employers as civil rights' governors of the workplace, a legal period that is currently changing.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The only viable path to continued federal governance of private sector labor relations during R administrations is a strong state-based alternative.
www.nlrb.gov/news-outreac...
Working paper around those themes here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A more developed Law Rev was submitted.
www.nlrb.gov/news-outreac...
Working paper around those themes here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A more developed Law Rev was submitted.
www.nlrb.gov
August 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The only viable path to continued federal governance of private sector labor relations during R administrations is a strong state-based alternative.
www.nlrb.gov/news-outreac...
Working paper around those themes here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A more developed Law Rev was submitted.
www.nlrb.gov/news-outreac...
Working paper around those themes here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A more developed Law Rev was submitted.
Bumping this opportunity for feedback on junior scholars' work. Having someone read and comment on your work in progress is a rare privilege in academic life. Submit your work, tell a friend, dm for qs.
politicaleconomy.columbia.edu/news/call-pa...
politicaleconomy.columbia.edu/news/call-pa...
Call for Papers: Columbia-Cornell Political Economy of Work Junior Scholars Workshop | Columbia Center for Political Economy
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August 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Bumping this opportunity for feedback on junior scholars' work. Having someone read and comment on your work in progress is a rare privilege in academic life. Submit your work, tell a friend, dm for qs.
politicaleconomy.columbia.edu/news/call-pa...
politicaleconomy.columbia.edu/news/call-pa...
Unilaterally assigning status by executive action - I hope labor advocates are taking notes
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College Athletes Could Be Denied Worker Rights Under Trump Order
The Labor Department could soon declare that student athletes are independent contractors and not full-fledged employees, a move that would draw legal challenges and potentially shake up the fast-chan...
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August 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Unilaterally assigning status by executive action - I hope labor advocates are taking notes
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
I just got the plaque for the Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award from Cornell University for 2025. Deeply humbling.
לחיי הספינות שבדרך,
לחיי הספינות שבדרך,
July 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I just got the plaque for the Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award from Cornell University for 2025. Deeply humbling.
לחיי הספינות שבדרך,
לחיי הספינות שבדרך,
So, I see we're back to NLRA business as usual, flipping and flopping our way to 0% union density.
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
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Trump Names NLRB Nominees, Paving Path to Functioning Quorum (1)
President Donald Trump tapped a pair of National Labor Relations Board nominees who, if confirmed, would give the agency enough board members to fully function.
news.bloomberglaw.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
So, I see we're back to NLRA business as usual, flipping and flopping our way to 0% union density.
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
If you want a functioning Board and NLRA - invest in countervailing state labor laws. Scare them back into the NLRA.
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
Trump Names NLRB Nominees, Providing Path to Functioning Quorum
President Donald Trump tapped a pair of National Labor Relations Board nominees who, if confirmed, would give the agency enough board members to fully function.
news.bloomberglaw.com
July 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
If you want a functioning Board and NLRA - invest in countervailing state labor laws. Scare them back into the NLRA.
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
The struggle to classify gig workers as employees was the biggest policy defeat for labor progressives in the 2010s.
I'm glad to see new venues opening up.
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
My (first) old paper holds up well:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I'm glad to see new venues opening up.
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
My (first) old paper holds up well:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Gig Drivers Unionize Without Employee Status Under State Plans
Lawmakers in California and Illinois are proposing to let ride-hail drivers unionize and bargain for better wages and benefits, without changing their status as independent contractors.
news.bloomberglaw.com
July 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The struggle to classify gig workers as employees was the biggest policy defeat for labor progressives in the 2010s.
I'm glad to see new venues opening up.
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
My (first) old paper holds up well:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I'm glad to see new venues opening up.
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
My (first) old paper holds up well:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Reposted by Gali Racabi
RIP Dick Fallon. A devastating loss professionally and personally.
July 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
RIP Dick Fallon. A devastating loss professionally and personally.
Reposted by Gali Racabi
I highly recommend reading @gracabi.bsky.social's paper. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
For another idea that complements his, check out Brian Callaci and my paper on how Parker Immunity can be used to create sectoral bargaining. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
For another idea that complements his, check out Brian Callaci and my paper on how Parker Immunity can be used to create sectoral bargaining. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
July 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I highly recommend reading @gracabi.bsky.social's paper. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
For another idea that complements his, check out Brian Callaci and my paper on how Parker Immunity can be used to create sectoral bargaining. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
For another idea that complements his, check out Brian Callaci and my paper on how Parker Immunity can be used to create sectoral bargaining. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
If you think the NLRA is doomed, you should push for state private sector labor laws to protect workers' rights to power and voice on the job.
If you want to protect the NLRA, you should advocate for state labor laws as a counterbalance to employers' efforts to undermine the Board.
All roads etc.
If you want to protect the NLRA, you should advocate for state labor laws as a counterbalance to employers' efforts to undermine the Board.
All roads etc.
July 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
If you think the NLRA is doomed, you should push for state private sector labor laws to protect workers' rights to power and voice on the job.
If you want to protect the NLRA, you should advocate for state labor laws as a counterbalance to employers' efforts to undermine the Board.
All roads etc.
If you want to protect the NLRA, you should advocate for state labor laws as a counterbalance to employers' efforts to undermine the Board.
All roads etc.
De-minimis slavery is allowed
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Amazon Gets Boost With Maryland High Court De Minimis Ruling (1)
Amazon.com Services LLC’s wage law interpretation won out at Maryland’s highest court, where a majority said a doctrine allowing employers to avoid compensating workers for small amounts of time appli...
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July 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
De-minimis slavery is allowed
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