Academic Articles and Writing
Director of the NYU Wagner Labor Initiative Terri Gerstein has authored numerous articles and reports on labor-related topics, both in her current position and in her prior work as director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Center for Labor and a Just Economy.
How Local Government Can Protect Workers' Rights Even When States Do Not Want Them to: Opportunities for Local Creativity and Persistence Despite Double Preemption, (co-author LiJia Gong), Fordham Urban Law Journal, 2024.
State Policy Levers to Fight Child Labor, University of Arkansas Law Review, 2024.
How Local Government Can Protect Workers' Rights Even When States Do Not Want Them to: Opportunities for Local Creativity and Persistence Despite Double Preemption, (co-author LiJia Gong), Fordham Urban Law Journal, 2024.
State Policy Levers to Fight Child Labor, University of Arkansas Law Review, 2024.
- Examining the Role of AGs in a Just Transition (co-author Bethany Davis Noll), Pace Environmental Law Review, 2023.
- Why Workplace Scholars and Enforcers Should be in Conversation, Labor and Employment Relations Association Perspectives on Work Magazine, 2022.
- The Growing Role of Localities in the United States in Enacting and Enforcing Protections for Gig Economy Workers, (co-author LiJia Gong), Competition Policy International, TechREG Chronicle, J2022.
- State and Local Workers’ Rights Innovations: New Players, New Laws, New Methods of Enforcement, originally published in Saint Louis University Law Journal, 2021.
- Forced Arbitration: A Losing Proposition for Workers, Chapter 11 in Inequality and the Labor Market, 2021.
- The People’s Lawyer, For All the People: State Attorneys General and Immigrants’ Rights, American Constitution Society Issue Brief, 2020.
- “Sign on the Dotted Line”: How Coercive Employment Contracts Are Bringing Back the Lochner Era and What We Can Do About It, (co-author Jane Flanagan), originally published in University of San Francisco Law Review, 2020.
- Re-Envisioning the Roles of Prosecutors and Attorneys General to Make the Justice System Work for Everyone, (co-author Arisha Hatch), Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2020.