Faculty Scholarship

The Different American Legal Structures for Unionization of Writers for Stage and Screen, Fisk, Catherine L., in The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies (Davies, Rosamund; Russo, Paolo; Tieber, Claus eds., 2023) Contribution to Book

When Labor Unions Were Considered Important to the Future of Capitalism, Fisk, Catherine L., 86 Law & Contemp. Probs. (2023) Forthcoming Article

Free Speech at Work, Fisk, Catherine L., in Oxford Handbook on the Law of Work (2023) Forthcoming Contribution to Book

Collective Bargaining and Police Accountability, Fisk, Catherine L., 69 Wayne L. Rev. (2023) Forthcoming Article

A Pandemic of Division: Finding Justice at Work in Challenging Times, Fisk, Catherine L., 57 U.S.F. L. Rev. 1 (2022)

Episode #5: Advancing Workers’ Rights, Chemerinsky, Erwin; Ashar, Sameer; Fisk, Catherine; Block, Sharon, More Just (2022)

Collective Bargaining without the Protection of Labor Law, Fisk, Catherine L., 2022 Jotwell: J. Things We Like 1 (2022)

Compelled Disclosure and the Workplace Rights It Enables, Fisk, Catherine L., 97 Ind. L.J. (2022)

The Different American Legal Structures for Unionization of Writers for Stage and Screen, Fisk, Catherine L. in Handbook of Screenwriting Studies (2022)

The Fragility of Labor Relations in American Theatre, Fisk, Catherine L.; Salter, Brent, 83 Ohio St. L.J. 217 (2022)

Foreword, Fisk, Catherine L. in Beyond the Algorithm: Qualitative Insights for Gig Work Regulation (Acevedo, Deepa das, ed., 2021)

California Law Enforcement Labor Reform Proposals, Fisk, Catherine L.; Grodin, Joseph; Henderson, Thelton; True, John; Yank, Ronald; Winograd, Barry, 35 Cal. Lab. & Emp. L. Rev. 1 (2021)

Protecting Franchisees and Workers in Fast Food Work, Fisk, Catherine L.; Reavis, Amy W., Am. Const. Soc’y (2021)

Precarious Work and Precarious Welfare: How the Pandemic Reveals Fundamental Flaws of the U.S. Social Safety Net, Albiston, Catherine R.; Fisk, Catherine L., 42 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 257 (2021)

“People Crushed by Law Have No Hopes But from Power”: Free Speech and Protest in the 1940s, Fisk, Catherine L., 39 Law & Hist. Rev. 173 (2021)

The Once and Future Countervailing Power of Labor, Fisk, Catherine L., 130 Yale L.J. F. 685 (2021)

Reforming Law Enforcement Labor Relations, Fisk, Catherine L.; Grodin, Joseph; Henderson, Thelton; True, John; Winograd, Barry; Yank, Ronald, Calif. L. Rev. Online (2020-08)

Protection by Law, Repression by Law: Bringing Labor Back into the Study of Law and Social Movements, Fisk, Catherine L.; Reddy, Diana S., 70 Emory L J. 63 (2020)

Covid-19 Reveals Gaping Holes in the U.S. Social Safety Net, Fisk, Catherine L.; Albiston, Catherine, Calif. L. Rev. Online (2020-05)

Non-Disclosure Agreements: Nondisclosure Agreements and Sexual Harassment: #MeToo and the Change in American Law of Hush Contracts, Fisk, Catherine L. in Globalization of the MeToo Movement (Noel, Ann; Oppenheimer, David eds., 2020)

Sustainable Alt-Labor, Fisk, Catherine L., 95 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 7 (2020)

Labor Law in the Contemporary Workplace, Fisk, Catherine L.; Cameron, Christopher David Ruiz; Corrada, Roberto L.; Dau-Schmidt, Kenneth G.; Malin, Martin H. (3d ed. 2019)

Work after the End of Employment – An Introduction, Fisk, Catherine L., 82 Law & Contemp. Probs. (2019)

Democratic Norms and Governance Experimentalism in Worker Centers, Ashar, Sameer M.; Fisk, Catherine L., 82 Law & Contemp. Probs. 141 (2019)

After Janus, Fisk, Catherine L.; Malin, Martin H., 107 Calif. L. Rev. 1821 (2019)

Labor Power and Industrial and Political Democracy, Fisk, Catherine L., 2019 Jotwell: J. Things We Like 1 (2019)

A Progressive Labor Vision of the First Amendment: Past as Prologue, Fisk, Catherine L., 118 Colum. L. Rev. 2057 (2018)

Is it Time for a New Free Speech Fight? Thoughts on Whether the First Amendment is a Friend or Foe of Labor, Fisk, Catherine L., 39 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 253 (2018)

California Co-Enforcement Initiatives That Facilitate Worker Organizing, Fisk, Catherine L.; Patel, Seema N., Harv. L. & Pol’y Rev.: Labor Law Reform Symposium (2018)

Exaggerating the Effects of Janus: A Reply to Professors Baude and Volokh, Fisk, Catherine L.; Chemerinsky, Erwin, 132 Harv. L. Rev. F. 42 (2018)

Police Unions, 85 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 712 (2017)

Hollywood Writers and the Gig Economy, Fisk, Catherine L., 2017 U. Chi. Legal F. 177 (2017)

The Writers’ Share, Fisk, Catherine L., 50 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 621 (2017)

Book Review – Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the North American Workplace, Fisk, Catherine L., 35 Law & Hist. Rev. 837 (2017)

Managing Multiple Employment Arbitration Cases with Class Action Waivers, Fisk, Catherine L. in Arbitration 2015: Privacy, Transparency, Legitimacy — Proceedings of the National Academy of Arbitrators (2016)

Writing for Hire: Unions, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue, Fisk, Catherine L. (2016)

Workplace Democracy and Democratic Worker Organizations: Notes on Workers Centers and Members-Only Unions, Fisk, Catherine L., 17 Theoretical Inq. L. 101 (2016)

Improvising the Future of Worker Mobilization, Fisk, Catherine L., 2016 Jotwell: J. Things We Like (2016)

Public Employee Unions and Pensions, Onlabor (2016-01-22)

The Uber Settlement is Only the Beginning, Fisk, Catherine L., ACSBlog (2016)

Free Speech Rights of Public Employees: Heffernan v. City of Paterson, Onlabor (2016)

Eliminating Non-competes One Employer at a Time Through Single-Issue Labor Organizing Campaigns, Onlabor (2016)

Fair Treatment for Theatre Labor: A Right to Perform Plays, Onlabor (2016)

The Future of Labor, Fisk, Catherine L., Onlabor (2016)

Fundamental Changes in New Equal Pay Law, Fisk, Catherine L., Nat’l L.J. (2016)

Labor Protest Under the New First Amendment, Fisk, Catherine L.; Rutter, Jessica, 36 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 277 (2015)

Will Work for Screen Credit: Labor and the Law in Hollywood, in Hollywood and the Law (Fisk, Catherine L.; McDonald, Paul; Carmen, Emely; Hoyt, Eric; Drake, Philip eds., 2015)

Scalia May Be Critical Vote in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Ass’n, Fisk, Catherine L., Onlabor (2015)

Symposium: The Friedrichs Petition Should Be Dismissed, Fisk, Catherine L., Scotusblog (2015)

NLRB’s Browning-Ferris Decision Could Reshape Contract and Franchise Labor, Fisk, Catherine L., Onlabor (2015)

Majority Rule and the Rights of Minorities: Friedrichs and Penn Plaza, Fisk, Catherine L., Onlabor (2015)

Despite ‘Concepcion,’ Class Actions Live On, Fisk, Catherine L., Nat’l L.J. (2015)

Hollywood Should Stop Discriminating Against Female Directors, Fisk, Catherine L., Sacramento Bee (2015)

Abercrombie Decision Not Such an ‘Easy Case’, Fisk, Catherine L., Nat’l L.J. (2015-06-15)

Worker Misclassification Problem Grows, Fisk, Catherine L., Nat’l L.J. (2015-11-09)

Labor at a Crossroads: In Defense of Members-Only Unionism, Fisk, Catherine L.. The American Prospect (2015)

Collective Actions and Joinder of Parties in Arbitration: Implications of DR Horton and Concepcion, Fisk, Catherine L., 35 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 175 (2014)

Labor Law in the Contemporary Workplace, Fisk, Catherine L.; Cameron, Christopher; Corrada, Roberto L; Dau-Schmidt, Kenneth G.; Malin, Martin H (2d ed. 2014)

Reimagining Collective Rights in the Workplace, Fisk, Catherine L., 4 UC Irvine L. Rev. 523 (2014)

Restoring Equity in Right-to-Work Law, 4 UC Irvine L. Rev. 857 (2014)

The Speech and Association Rights of Employees: Implications of Knox v. SEIU, Local 1000 and Harris v. Quinn, Fisk, Catherine L.; Chemerinsky, Erwin, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper Series (2014)

Courts vs. Unions: Speech and Association Rights Under Fire, Fisk, Catherine L., 23 New Lab. F. 42 (2014)

Harris v. Quinn Symposium: Court Departs from Federalism, First Amendment Jurisprudence, Fisk, Catherine L., Scotusblog (2014)

What It Means That McDonalds Is Responsible for its Franchises, Fisk, Catherine L., Onlabor (2014)

Does Hobby Lobby Allow Gender Discrimination?, Fisk, Catherine L., Onlabor (2014-11-7)

A RFRA Right to Collective Action?, Fisk, Catherine L., Onlabor (2014-11-10)

College Football Players’ Option to Unionize Is Within Legal Bounds, Fisk, Catherine L.; Chemerinsky, Erwin, Nat’l L.J. (2014-05-19)

Why Should Unions Negotiate for Workers Who Don’t Pay Their Fair Share?, Los Angeles Times (2014)

Workplace Knowledge and the Mobile Employee, in Business Innovation: A Legal Balancing Act (Fisk, Catherine L.; Pittard, Marilyn eds., 2013)

The Labor History of Intellectual Property in Writing for Film, Television, and Advertising, Fisk, Catherine L., 43 Intell. Prop. L. & Pol’y J. 157 (2013)

Supervisors in a World of Flat Hierarchies, Fisk, Catherine L., 64 Hastings L.J. 1403 (2013)

Political Speech and Association Rights after Knox v. Seiu, Local 1000, Fisk, Catherine L.; Chemerinsky, Erwin, 98 Cornell L. Rev. 1023 (2013)

Taking the Long View on Competition and the Mobile Employee: Lessons from the United States History of Efforts to Regulate Employee Innovation and the Mobility of Workplace Knowledge, Fisk, Catherine L., SSRN (2013)

Wal-Mart, Gap Skirt the Issue, Los Angeles Times (2013)

Law and the Evolving Shape of Labor: Narratives of Expansion and Retrenchment, Fisk, Catherine L., 11 Law, Culture & Human. 17 (2012)

Labor and the States’ Fiscal Problems, in When States Go Broke: The Origins, Context, and Solutions for the American States in Fiscal Crisis (Fisk, Catherine L.; Olney, Brian; Conti-Brown, Peter; Skeel, David A. eds., 2012)

Contingent Loyalty and Restricted Exit: Commentary on the Restatement of Employment Law, 16 Emp. Rts. & Emp. Pol’y J. 413 (2012)

The Role of Private Intellectual Property Rights in Markets for Labor and Ideas: Screen Credit and the Writers Guild of America, 1938-2000, Fisk, Catherine L., 32 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 215 (2011)

The Failing Faith in Class Actions: Wal-Mart v. Dukes and AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, Fisk, Catherine L.; Chemerinsky, Erwin, 7 Duke J. Const. L. & Pub. Pol’y 73 (2011)

Imagine a World Where Employers are Required to Bargain with Minority Unions, 27 J. Lab. & Emp. L. 1 (2011)

The Anti-Subordination Principle of Labor Preemption, Fisk, Catherine L., 5 Harv. L. & Pol’y Rev. 17 (2011)

The Modern Author at Work on Madison Avenue, in Modernism and Copyright (Fisk, Catherine L.; Saint-Amour, Paul eds., 2010)

Overview of the Law of Workplace Harassment, in Litigating the Workplace Harassment Case (Fisk, Catherine L.; Avery, Dianne; Heyser, Marlene eds., 2010)

The Role of the Judiciary When the Agency Confirmation Process Stalls: Thoughts on the Two-Member NLRB and the Questions the Supreme Court Should Have, But Didn’t, Address in New Process Steel, L.P. v. NLRB, Fisk, Catherine L., 5 FIU L. Rev. 593 (2010)

Labor Law in the Contemporary Workplace, Fisk, Catherine L.; Cameron, Christopher David Ruiz; Corrada, Roberto L.; Dau-Schmidt, Kenneth G.; Malin, Martin H. (1st ed. 2009)

Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930, Fisk, Catherine L. (2009)

The NLRB in Administrative Law Exile: Problems with Its Structure and Function and Suggestions for Reform, 58 Duke L.J. 2013 (2009)

Working Group on Chapter 4 of the Proposed Restatement of Employment Law: The Tort of Wrongful Discipline in Violation of Public Policy, 13 Emp. Rts. & Emp. Pol’y J. 159 (2009)

First Contract Arbitration and the Employee Free Choice Act, Fisk, Catherine L.; Pulver, Adam R., 70 La. L. Rev. 47 (2009)

Interest Arbitration and the Employee Free Choice Act: A Time Honored and Tested Method to Ensure Good-Faith Bargaining, Fisk, Catherine L. in Academics on Employee Free Choice: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Labor Law Reform (Logan, John ed., 2009)

Response: Thoughts on Treating Union Representation Processes as a Market in Need of Legally Required Disclosure of Information, Fisk, Catherine L., 94 Va. L. Rev. Brief 1 (2008)

After Inclusion, 4 Ann. Rev. Law & Soc. Sci. (2008)

Labor Markets, Income Inequality and Globalization, Fisk, Catherine L.; Ansley, Frances L.; Bloom, Ron; Scott, Judith A.; Shaiken, Harley; Uchitelle, Louis, 15 Geo. J. Poverty & Inequality 475 (2008)

Preemption and Civic Democracy in the Battle over Wal-Mart, Fisk, Catherine L.; Oswalt, Michael M., 92 Minn. L. Rev. 1502 (2008)

Foreword: The Low-Wage Worker: Legal Rights – Legal Realities, 92 Minn. L. Rev. 1289 (2008)

An Ingenious Man Enabled by Contract: Entrepreneurship and the Rise of Contract, Fisk, Catherine L. in Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930 (2007)

Foreword: Making Makeup Matter, 14 Duke J. Gender L. & Pol’y 1 (2007)

The Story of Ingersoll-Rand v. Ciavatta: Employee Inventors in Corporate Research & Development -– Reconciling Innovation with Entrepreneurship, Fisk, Catherine L. in Employment Law Stories (2006)

Privacy, Power, and Humiliation at Work: Re-Examining Appearance Regulation as an Invasion of Privacy, Fisk, Catherine L., 66 La. L. Rev. 1111 (2006)

Foreword: Looking for a Miracle? Women, Work, and Effective Legal Change, Fisk, Catherine L., 13 Duke J. Gender L. & Pol’y 1 (2006)

Book Review – Defending Rights: Law, Labor Politics, and the State in California 1890-1925 by Thomas Ralph Clark, Fisk, Catherine L., 1 Cal. Legal Hist. 171 (2006)

The Story of Hoffman Plastic Compounds v. NLRB: The Rules of the Workplace for Undocumented Immigrants, Fisk, Catherine L.; Wishnie, Michael J. in Immigration Stories (Martin, David; Schuck, Peter eds., 2005)

Labor Law Stories (Fisk, Catherine L.; Cooper, Laura J. eds., 2005)

The Story of Hoffman Plastic Compounds v. NLRB: Labor Rights Without Remedies for Undocumented Immigrants, Fisk, Catherine L.; Wishnie, Michael J. in Labor Law Stories (Fisk, Catherine L.; Cooper, Laura J. eds., 2005)

Knowledge Work: New Metaphors for the New Economy, Fisk, Catherine L., 80 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 839 (2005)

Introduction: The Enduring Power of Collective Rights in Labor Law Stories (Fisk, Catherine L.; Cooper, Laura J. eds., 2005)

Book Review – Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power, Doron S. Ben-Atar, Fisk, Catherine L., 79 Bus. Hist. Rev. 367 (2005)

What Is Commercial Speech – The Issue Not Decided in Nike v. Kasky, Chemerinsky, Erwin; Fisk, Catherine L., 54 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 1143 (2004)

Justice for Janitors in Los Angeles and Beyond: A New Form of Unionism in the 21st Century? in The Changing Role of Unions: New Forms of Representation (Fisk, Catherine L.; Wunnava, Phanindra; Erickson, Christopher L.; Milkman, Ruth; Mitchell, Daniel J.B.; Wong, Kent eds., 2004)

Knowledge Workers in the New Economy: From Cliché to Contract – The 26th Annual Kenneth M. Piper Lecture, Institute for Law and the Workplace Lectures (2004)

Book Review – In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America, Alice Kessler-Harris Fisk, Catherine L., 51 Buff. L. Rev. 409 (2003)

Authors at Work: The Origins of the Work-for-Hire Doctrine, Fisk, Catherine L., 15 Yale J.L. & Human. 1 (2003)

Union Lawyers and Employment Law, Fisk, Catherine L., 23 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 57 (2002)

Unions and Low-Wage Immigrant Workers: Lessons from the Justice for Janitors Campaign in Los Angeles, 1990-2002, Fisk, Catherine L.; Erickson, Christopher L.; Milkman, Ruth; Mitchell, Daniel J.B.; Wong, Kent, Center for the Study of Law and Society Working Paper Series (2002)

Justice for Janitors in Los Angeles: Lessons from Three Rounds of Negotiations, Erickson, Christopher L.; Milkman, Ruth; Mitchell, Dniel J. B.; Wong, Kent; Fisk, Catherine L., 40 Brit. J. Indus. Rel. 543 (2002)

Reflections on the New Psychological Contract and the Ownership of Human Capital, Fisk, Catherine L., 34 Conn. L. Rev. 765 (2002)

Seven: Justice for Janitors in Los Angeles, UCLA: School of Public Affairs (2002)

A Free Labor Ideology for the Ingenious Tinkerer: Class and the Ownership of Employee Patents, 1880-1925, Fisk, Catherine L., Loyola-LA Public Law Research Paper No. 20 (2002)

Working Knowledge: Trade Secrets, Restrictive Covenants in Employment, and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property , 1800-1920, Fisk, Catherine L., 52 Hastings L.J. 441 (2001)

The Expressive Interest of Associations, Chemerinsky, Erwin; Fisk, Catherine L., 9 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 595 (2001)

Humiliation at Work, Fisk, Catherine L., 8 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 73 (2001)

Union Representation of Immigrant Janitors in Southern California: Economic and Legal Challenges, Fisk, Catherine L.; Mitchell, Daniel J. B.; Erickson, Christopher L. in Organizing Immigrants (Milkman, Ruth ed., 2000)

Civil Rights Without Remedies: Vicarious Liability Under Title VII, Section 1983, and Title IX, Fisk, Catherine L.; Chemerinsky, Erwin, 7 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 755 (1999)

Rights in Employee Inventions and Creative Works: An Overview of United States Law, Fisk, Catherine L., 23 N.Z. J. Industrial Rel. 47 (1998)

Removing the ‘Fuel of Interest’ from the ‘Fire of Genius’: Law and the Employee-Inventor, 1830-1930, Fisk, Catherine L., 65 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1127 (1998)

ERISA Preemption of State and Local Laws on Domestic Partnership and Sexual Orientation Discrimination in Employment, Fisk, Catherine L., 8 UCLA Women’s L.J. 267 (1998)

Owning Employees’ Knowledge, Fisk, Catherine L., 2 Persp. Work 12 (1998)

The Last Article About the Language of ERISA Preemption? A Case Study of the Failure of Textualism, Fisk, Catherine L., 33 Harv. J. on Legis. 35 (1996)

Lochner Redux: The Renaissance of Laissez-Faire Contract in the Federal Common Law of Employee Benefits, Fisk, Catherine L., 56 Ohio St. L.J. 153 (1995)

There Is Still So Much to Learn From Legislation, Fisk, Catherine L., 19 Law & Soc. Inquiry 217 (1994)

Still “Learning Something of Legislation”: The Judiciary in the History of Labor Law, Fisk, Catherine L., 19 Law & Soc. Inquiry 151 (1994)

Employer-Provided Child Care under Title VII: Toward an Employer’s Duty to Accommodate Child Care Responsibilities of Employees, Fisk, Catherine L., 2 Berkeley J. Gender L. & Just. 89 (1986)

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