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Alan Hyde
Professor of Law and Sidney Reitman Scholar
Professor Hyde earned his A.B. from Stanford and his J.D. from Yale. Before coming to Rutgers, he was an instructor at New York University School of Law and represented the National Labor Relations Board in federal courts of appeals. He is the author of Working in Silicon Valley: Economic and Legal Analysis of a High-Velocity Labor Market (2003), Bodies of Law (1997), and the co-author of Legal Rights and Interests in the Workplace: Cases and Materials on Employment and Labor Law (with C.W. Summers and K.G. Dau-Schmidt, 2007) and Cases and Materials on Labor Law (2nd ed., 1982) (with C.W. Summers and H.H. Wellington). He has been a visiting professor at Yale, Columbia, Cornell, New York University, Cardozo, the University of Michigan, and the University of Toronto law schools.
Professor Hyde’s current research projects include bargaining structures for low-wage service workers, game theory analysis of transnational labor standards, and the design of a North American free labor market. He is a director of the Association for Union Democracy, and frequently writes briefs in labor and employment cases on behalf of the Association and other employee rights organizations.
Professor Hyde lives in Greenwich Village with his wife Ellen Gesmer, a judge of the New York Civil Court. He enjoys reading, working out, and attending opera and dance performances, and plays the oboe in chamber groups.