 Ruben J. Garcia Associate Professor of Law
LL.M. University of Wisconsin
J.D. University of California, Los Angeles
A.B. Stanford University
[honors, political science]
Courses Taught: Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, International Labor & Employment Law, Labor Law, NAFTA & Labor, Professional Responsibility; Dimensions of Culture: Justice (University of California, San Diego)
Ruben J. Garcia is a tenured Associate Professor at California Western School of Law in San Diego, where he has taught since 2003. He has held visiting appointments at the University of California, Davis School of Law and at the University of California, San Diego. Garcia's research focuses on labor and employment law, with particular attention to the effects of race, gender, immigration and globalization on the world of work. He teaches primarily in the Labor and Employment Law Concentration at California Western, as well as Professional Responsibility and a course in Constitutional Law at the University of California, San Diego.
Before teaching, Garcia specialized in labor and employment law while in private practice in Los Angeles. He now serves on the executive boards of the Society of American Law Teachers and the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties. Garcia is also active in the Law and Society Association and the Labor and Employment Relations Association.
Professor Garcia's scholarly articles have been published in the University of Chicago Legal Forum, the Hastings Law Journal, the Florida Law Review, the Florida State University Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law, and the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, among other publications. He is currently writing a book for New York University Press, entitled Marginal Workers: How Legal Fault Lines Divide Workers and Leave Them Without Protection.
Selected Publications
- "Marginal Workers: How Legal Fault Lines Divide Workers and Leave Them Without Protection" (book in progress forthcoming 2010 from New York University Press)
- Labor's Approach to Immigration: How Does Law Matter? Co-Authored with Dr. Tamara Kay, Harvard University Sociology Department (Work in Progress)
- Toward Fundamental Change for the Protection of Low-W Workers: The Labor Rights are Human Rights Debate in the Obama Era, 2009 University of Chicago Legal Forum 421.
- Economic Analysis of Labor and Employemtn Law in the New Economy: Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Meeting, Association of American law Schools, Section on Law and Economics, 12 Employee Rights & Employment Policy J. 366 (2008) (comments on Professor Jagdeep Bhandari's article).
- Against Legislation: Garcetti v. Ceballos and the Paradox of Statutory Protection for Public Employees, 7 First Amendment L. Rev. 22 (2008).
- Teaching Preventive Law and Problem-Solving Skills Through International Labour and Employment Law, 25 Int’l J. Comp. Labour L. Industrial Relations 15 (2009).
- "A Democratic Theory of Amicus Advocacy," 35 Florida State Univ. Law Review 315 (2008)
- "Act of Union" (Labor Day 2007) appeared in the Los Angeles Daily Journal on August 31, 2007
- "Labor as Property: Guestworkers, Trade Agreements and the Democracy Deficit," Journal of Gender, Race & Justice (Fall 2006)
- Labor's Fragile Freedom of Association Post-9/11," 8 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor & Employment Law 283 (2006)
- "Legal Reform: The Role of Public Institutions and Legal Culture," 35 California Western International Law Journal 266 (2005)
- "Transnationalism as a Social Movement Strategy: Actors, Institutions and Internation Labor Standards," 10 Journal of International Law & Policy 1 (2003)
- "Ghost Workers in an Interconnected World: Going Beyond the Dichotomies of Domestic Immigration and Labor Laws," 26 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 737 (2003)
- "Across the Borders: Immigrant Status and Identity in Law and LatCrit Theory," 55 Florida Law Review 511 (2003)
- "New Voices at Work: Race and Gender Identity Caucuses in The U.S. Labor Movement," 54 Hastings Law Journal 79 (2002)
Selected Presentations
- Labor's Approach to Immigration: How Does Law Matter? Princeton University, February 26-27, 2010
- Labor Law Aspects of Faculty Employment, Society of American Law Teachers Faculty Development Workshop, Washington D.C., October 2, 2009
- Filling in the Gaps: Toward Fundamental Rights for Workers, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, May 30, 2009
- What Does Critical Race Theory Do For Marginal Workers? Critical Race Theory at 20 Symposium, University of Iowa College of Law, April 2, 2009
- The Evolving Definition of the Immigrant Worker, University of San Francisco School of Law, February 27, 2009
- Marginal Workers: How Legal Fault Lines Divide Workers and Leave Them Without Protection, University of Chicago Law School, November 14-15, 2009
- "Teaching with Conscience," Society of American Law Teachers Conference, University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law, Berkeley, March 15, 2008
- "Neither Citizen nor Lawyer: Garcetti v Ceballos and the Government Lawyer as Public Citizen" at the First Amendment Law Review Symposium at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, on Feb. 22, 2008
- "Teaching Problem Solving and Prevention Through International Labor and Employment Law" at The Global Workplace Symposium, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, Feb. 15, 2008.
- Marginal Workers: How Gaps in Legal Protection Divide Workers, at American University College of Law, Washington, DC, June 1, 2007
- Labor as Property: NAFTA, Guestworkers and the Democracy Deficit, at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 5, 2005
- Labor as Property: NAFTA, Guestworkers and the Democracy Deficit, U. of Oregon Law School, Mar.31 - April. 1, 2005
- Labor's Fragile Freedom of Association Post-9/11, at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA, Oct. 28, 2004
- Labor's Fragile Freedom of Association Post-9/11, at St. Louis University School of Law, Oct. 4, 2004
Professor Garcia's Media Appearances - 2005, 2006
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