Ellen Dannin
Fannie Weiss Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law
Education:
J.D., The University of Michigan Law School
B.A., University of Michigan School of Literature, Science and the Arts
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 and Working Free: The Origins and Impact of New Zealand's Employment Contracts Act, Auckland University Press. She is currently working on a book about privatization –Thinking About Privatization? Who Does the Work and Why it Matters. Professor Dannin regularly teaches courses in labor law and employment law, and has taught various labor law seminars and public sector labor law.
She publishes the online monthly online newsletter Labor and the Law and 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. Professor Dannin has been a consultant for the United States and New Zealand Departments of Labor and the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Workplace Quality Issues Panel, among others. 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 and Pennsylvania House 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 of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Contact Information:
E-mail: ejd13@psu.edu
Phone: (814) 865-8996
Principal Office: University Park
SSRN Profile Page
Curriculum Vitae
Testimony and Opinion Pieces on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Lease
Developing Labor Law § 8(a)(2) (ABA 2009) (contributing editor).
Not a Limited, Confined, or Private Matter: Who is an Employee Under the National Labor Relations Act, 59 Labor L.J. (2008).
NLRA Values, Labor Values, American Values, 26 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 223 (2005).
Working Free: The Origins and Impact of New Zealand's Employment Contracts Act, Auckland University Press (1997).
