Professor Michael LeRoy is the LER Alumni Professor of Labor and Employment Relations, and an affiliated member of the College of Law faculty. His current research program examines immigration and employment; the professionalization of college athletics, including unionization; updated uses of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 as a legal tool to combat racial extremism in the workplace; and the legal implications of gig work, for example, “Uberized” forms of work. His research was part of invited paper conferences at Cal-Berkeley’s School of Law (2020), Cornell’s ILR School (2019), NYU Law School (2018), and George Mason School of Law (2019).
