| Education:
J.D., The University of Michigan Law School
B.A., University of Michigan School of Literature,
Science and the Arts
Ellen Dannin joined the Penn State Dickinson School
of Law faculty in 2006 after teaching at Wayne State
University Law School and in San Diego at California
Western School of Law. She has also taught at the
University of Michigan Law School, the University
of Massachusetts — Amherst Masters Program in Union
Leadership and Administration, and Massey University
in New Zealand. She has been a scholar in residence
at Victoria University Wellington, Otago University,
and Waikato University, all in New Zealand.
Professor Dannin has been a consultant for the United
States and New Zealand Departments of Labor and the
U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) Workplace Quality
Issues Panel and is on the CCH Insight Panel of Experts.
In 2007, she was elected to the Executive Board of
the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA).
Professor Dannin has been invited to give testimony
to the California State Assembly on privatization
and to the United States Congress on the use of Strategic
Litigation Against Public Policy (SLAPP) suits to
silence academics, specifically focusing on the Beverly
Enterprises lawsuit filed against Professor Kate Bronfenbrenner.
Before entering teaching, Professor Dannin was a
trial attorney with the National Labor Relations Board
and clerked for Judge Cornelia Kennedy, both in Detroit,
Michigan.
Professor Dannin writes primarily in the areas of
collective bargaining, privatization, New Zealand
labour law, and legal education. She is a prolific
writer of both scholarly articles and popular pieces.
She is the author of Taking
Back the Workers’ Law — How to Fight the Assault
on Labor Rights, Cornell University Press,
2006 and Working Free: The Origins and Impact
of New Zealand's Employment Contracts Act, Auckland
University Press 1997, and is currently working on
a book about the privatization of the Internal Revenue
Service: No-Bodies Were There — Privatization
and People with Disabilities.
Professor Dannin also has a record of active community
service and academic outreach to disadvantaged students.
She created the Law High program as part of a partnership
with San Diego High School, an inner city school.
Her service to the legal profession includes work
as a contributing editor, to the American Bar Association,
The Developing Labor Law and her monthly online newsletter,
Labor and the Law, is widely read by academics,
lawyers, and laypersons. She has served on the boards
of many labor-related organizations and publications,
including the Labor and Employment Relations Association
(LERA) Labor and Employment Law Section; the Labor
Law Journal; and WorkingUSA. She is
co-chair of the Law and Society Association’s
Collaborative Research Network on Labor Rights.
Professor Dannin regularly teaches courses in Labor
Law, Employment Law, various Labor Law Seminars, and
Civil Procedure. She has also taught Evidence and
Public Sector Labor Law.
Contact Information:
Email:
ejd13@psu.edu
Phone: (814) 865-8996
Resume
Testimony and Opinion
Pieces on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Lease
Law Reform, Collective Bargaining, and the Balance of Power, with Michelle Dean & Gangaram Singh, Working USA, 2008.
Not a Limited, Confined, or Private Matter: Who is an Employee Under the National Labor Relations Act, Labor Law Journal, 2008.
Why
At-Will Employment is Bad for Employers and Just Cause
is Good for Them, Labor Law Journal,
2007.
Taking
Back the Workers’ Law — How to Fight the
Assault on Labor, Cornell University Press,
2006. (streaming
media link)
“Red
Tape or Accountability: Privatization, Public-ization,
and Public Values,” Cornell Journal
Law & Public Policy, 2006.
“NLRA Values, Labor Values, American Values,” Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor
Law, 2005.
“Privatizing
Information and Information Technology - Whose Life
Is it Anyway?" John Marshall Journal
of Computer & Information and Law, 2004.
“From
Dictator Game to Ultimatum Game . . . and Back Again:
Judicial Amendment Posing as Legal Interpretation,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor
& Employment Law, 2004.
“Hail,
Market, Full of Grace: Buying and Selling Labor Law
Reform,” Law Review of Michigan State
University — Detroit College of Law, 2001.
“To
Market, To Market: Privatizing and Subcontracting
Public Work,” University of Maryland
Law Review, 2001.
“Contracting
Mediation: The Impact of Different Statutory Regimes,” Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal, 1999.
Working Free: The Origins and Impact of New Zealand's
Employment Contracts Act, Auckland University
Press, 1997.
“Consummating Market-Based Labor Law Reform
in New Zealand: Context and Reconfiguration,” Boston University International Law Journal, 1996.
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