Diana S. Reddy is a law professor and the Faculty Co-Director for the Center for Law and Work at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she teaches courses about the regulation of work, the role of labor unions in American democracy, and the relationship between economic justice and civil rights. Her scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as the Yale Law Journal, the California Law Review, and the Emory Law Journal, and her shorter commentary can be found at the LPE Blog, the ACS Expert Forum, Power at Work, and more. Diana is also a Research Fellow with the Roosevelt Institute’s Worker Power and Economic Security Program.
Prior to entering legal academia, Diana was a litigator, representing labor unions and workers at the AFL-CIO, Altshuler Berzon LLP, and the California Teachers Association. She has a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from UC Berkeley, and received her law degree, magna cum laude, from NYU School of Law, where she was a Root Tilden Kern Scholar. After law school, Diana clerked for Judge Kimba Wood of the Southern District of New York and Judge Theodore McKee of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
Diana is a regular speaker at conferences and panels, for audiences of workers, employers, scholars, lawyers, and policymakers thinking about how to make work better. She frequently speaks to the media about workplace policy and labor issues, and has been quoted in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, and many more. Diana was born and raised in Houston, TX and now lives in the Bay Area, CA.
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