Katherine Stone
Professor of Law
stone@law.ucla.edu



Katherine Stone, Professor, joined the UCLA Law School in Fall, 2004. She teaches Labor Law and Private Justice: The Law of Alternative Dispute Resolution and a seminar on Labor and Social Policy in the Spring. Prior to joining the Law School, she was Professor of Law at Cornell Law School (1992-2004) and Anne Evans Estabrook Professor of Dispute Resolution at Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations (2000-04). Previously, she was Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University from 1984 to 1992. Stone received her B.A., magna cum laude from Harvard University (1970) and earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School (1979). She was an attorney at Cohen Weiss & Simon from 1979-1981 and at Rabinowitz Boudin Standard Krinsky & Lieberman from 1981-1984. She was a visiting professor at Chicago Law School (1990-91), Stanford Law School (1997) and Yale Law School (1999-2000).

Professor Stone has participated in a number of organizations and committees, including the Labor and Employment Section of the AALS (Chair, 2005), International Society of Labor Law and Social Security (Executive Board), the Law and Society Association, Contract Law Section of the AALS (Chair, 1994), the Labor and Employment Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. She specializes in courses regarding Labor Law, Comparative Labor Law, Employment Law, Labor and Social Policy, Private Justice, and Contracts. Professor Stone's most recent book, published by Cambridge University Press in 2004, is Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace. Other books include Arbitration Law (Foundation Press, 2003) and Private Justice: The Law of Alternative Dispute Resolution (Foundation Press, 2000). Other recent scholarship by Professor Stone include "The Steelworkers Trilogy and the Development of Labor Arbitration," in Labor Law Stories (Laura Cooper and Catherine Fisk, eds.) (Foundation Press, 2004); "Legal Regulation of the Changing Employment Contract," Cornell J. Law & Public Policy (2004); "Procedural Justice in the Boundaryless Workplace," San Diego L. Rev. (2004); Alternative Dispute Resolution," in Encyclopedia of Legal History (Stan Katz, Ed., Oxford University Press 2005), and "Employment Discrimination in the Boundaryless Workplace," in Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus (Martha Fineman & Terence Dougherty, eds.) (Cornell University Press, 2005). Professor Stone is the Editor of the Globalization and Labor Standards (GALS) Bibliographic Archive and Database, available at www.laborstandards.org, which includes abstracts of journal articles about international labor rights and global labor standards.


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