Scholarship Highlights
Lobel, Orly
Books
- The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter More Inclusive Future (Public Affairs 2022)
- Employment Law (6th ed., Thomson Reuters 2019) (with Rothstein et al.)
- Employment Law (6th ed., West Academic Hornbook Series 2019) (with with Rothstein et al.)
- You Don't Own Me: How Mattel v. MGA Entertainment Exposed Barbie's Dark Side (W.W. Norton and Company 2017)
- Talent Wants to Be Free: Why We Should Learn to Love Leaks, Raids, and Free-Riding (Yale University Press 2013)
- Encyclopedia of Labor and Employment Law and Economics (Kenneth Dau-Schmidt, Seth Harris & Orly Lobel eds., Edward Elgar Publishing 2009)
Journal Articles
- Biopolitical Opportunities: Between Datafication and Governance, 96 Notre Dame Law Review Reflection 181 (2021)
- Boilerplate Collusion: Clause Aggregation, Antitrust Law & Contract Governance, 106 Minnesota Law Review 877 (2021)
- Exit, Voice & Innovation, 57 Houston Law Review 781 (2020)
- Gentlemen Prefer Bonds: How Employers Fix the Talent Market, 59 Santa Clara Law Review 663 (2020)
- Knowledge Pays: Reversing Information Flows & The Future of Pay Equity, 120 Columbia Law Review 547 (2020)
- Non-Competes, Human Capital Policy & Regional Competition, 45 Journal of Corporation Law 931 (2020)
- We Are All Gig Workers Now: Online Platforms, Freelancers and The Battles Over Employment Status and Rights During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 57 San Diego Law Review 919 (2020)
- The Goldilocks Path of Legal Scholarship in a Digital Networked World, 50 Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 403 (2019)
- Platform Market Power, 32 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1051 (2018) (with Bamberger)
- The NFL as a Workplace: The Prospect of Applying Occupational Health and Safety Law to Protect NFL Workers, 60 Arizona Law Review 291 (2018) (with Finkel et al.)
- The DTSA and the New Secrecy Ecology, 1 Business, Entrepreneurship & Tax Law Journal 369 (2017)
- The Gig Economy and the Future of Employment and Labor Law, 51 University of San Francisco Law Review 51 (2017)
- Economic Espionage as Reality or Rhetoric: Prosperity as a Component of National Security, 20 Lewis and Clark Law Review 419 (2016) (with Dreyfuss)
- Enforceability TBD: From Status to Contract in Intellectual Property Law, 96 Boston University Law Review 869 (2016)
- The Law of the Platform, 101 Minnesota Law Review 87 (2016)
- The New Cognitive Property: Human Capital Law and the Reach of Intellectual Property, 93 Texas Law Review 789 (2015)
- Driving Performance: A Growth Theory of Non-Compete Law, 16 Stanford Technology Law Review 833 (2013) (with Amir)
- Linking Prevention, Detection, and Whistle-Blowing: Principles for Designing Effective Reporting Systems, 54 South Texas Law Review 37 (2013)
- Liberalism and Lifestyle: Informing Regulatory Governance with Behavioral Research, European Journal of Risk Regulation 17 (2012) (with Amir)
- The Incentives Matrix: The Comparative Effectiveness of Rewards, Liabilities, Duties and Protections for Reporting Illegality, 88 Texas Law Review 1151 (2010) (with Feldman)
- Citizenship, Organizational Citizenship, and the Laws of Overlapping Obligations, 97 California Law Review 433 (2009)
- Lawyering Loyalties: Speech Rights and Duties within 21st Century New Governance, 77 Fordham Law Review 1245 (2009)
- Behavioral Versus Institutional Antecedents of Decentralized Enforcement in Organizations: An Experimental Approach, 2 Regulations & Governance 165 (2008) (with Feldman)
- Stumble, Predict, Nudge: How Behavioral Economics Informs Law and Policy, 108 Columbia Law Review 2098 (2008) (with Amir)
- Big-Box Benefits: The Targeting of Giants in a National Campaign to Raise Work Conditions, 39 Connecticut Law Review (2007)
- The Paradox of Extra-Legal Activism: Critical Legal Consciousness and Transformative Politics, 120 Harvard Law Review 937 (2007)
- Reflections on Gender Equality and the Regulation of Sexuality in the Workplace: A Response to Kim Yuracko, 43 San Diego Law Review 899 (2006)
- Sustainable Capitalism or Ethical Transnationalism: Off-Shore Production and Economic Development, 17 Journal of Asian Economics 56 (2006)
- The Four Pillars of Work Law, 104 Michigan Law Review 1539 (2006)
- Walmartization and the Fair Share Health Care Acts, 19 St. Thomas Law Review 105 (2006) (with Contreras)
- Formulating a New Paradigm: Newness and the Ripeness of the Moment, 2005 Wisconsin Law Review 479 (2005)
- Interlocking Regulatory and Industrial Relations: The Governance of Workplace Safety, 57 Administrative Law Review 1071 (2005)
- Gender Discriminatory Behavior During Adolescence and Young Adulthood: A Developmental Analysis, 33 Journal of Youth and Adolescence (2004) (with Lobel, Nov-Krispin, Schiller & Feldman)
- Setting the Agenda for New Governance Research, 89 Minnesota Law Review 498 (2004)
- The Renew Deal: The Fall of Regulation and the Rise of Governance in Contemporary Legal Thought, 89 Minnesota Law Review 342 (2004)
- Orchestrated Experimentalism in the Regulation of Work, 101 Michigan Law Review 2146 (2003)
- The Law of Social Time, 76 Temple Law Review 357 (2003)
- The Slipperiness of Stability: Contracting for Flexible and Triangular Employment Relationships in the New Economy, 10 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 109 (2003)
- Family Geographies: Global Care Chains, Transnational Parenthood, and New Legal Challenges in an Era of Labor Globalization, 5 Current Legal Issues 383 (2002)
- Agency and Coercion in Labor and Employment Relations: Four Dimensions of Power in Shifting Patterns of Work, 4 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law 121 (2001)
- Class and Care: The Roles of Private Intermediaries in the In-home Care Industries in the United States and Israel, 24 Harvard Women's Law Journal 89 (2001)
Chapters of Books or Articles within Books
- Coase & the Platform Economy, in The Cambridge Handbook of the Sharing Economy (Nestor Davidson, Michele Finck & John Infranca eds., Cambridge University Press 2018)
- Behavioral Approaches to the Study of Law, in Rethinking Legal Scholarship: A Transatlantic Interchange (Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz, Ed Rubin & Rob van Gestel eds., Oxford University Press 2016)
- Behavioral Tradeoffs, in Nudge and the Law (Alberto Alemanno & Anne-Lise Sibony eds., Hart Publishing 2015) (with Feldman)
- Employment Law and Economics, in Law and Economics (Yuval Procaccia ed., 2012) (with Feldman & Lurie)
- New Governance as Regulatory Governance, in The Oxford Handbook of Governance (David Levi-Four ed., Oxford University Press 2012)
- Systems of Employee Representation: The US Report, in Employment Representation Systems Around the World (Kluwer Academic Press 2012) (with Lofaso)
- Whistleblowers and Social Enforcement, in Explaining Compliance: Business Responses to Regulation (Vibeke Nielsen & Christine Parker eds., Edward Elgar Publishing 2011) (with Feldman)
- Crowd Out or Ratcheting Up?: Fair Trade Systems, Regulation, and New Governance, in Fair Trade, Corporate Accountability and Beyond: Experiments in Globalizing Justice (Kate Macdonald ed., Ashgate Publishing 2009)
- Intellectual Property and Restrictive Covenants, in Encyclopedia of Employment Law and Economics (Kenneth Dau-Schmidt, Seth Harris & Orly Lobel eds., Edward Elgar Publishing 2009)
- National Regulation in a Global Economy: New Governance Approaches to 21st Century Work Law, in Encyclopedia of Employment Law and Economics (Kenneth Dau-Schmidt, Seth Harris & Orly Lobel eds., Edward Elgar Publishing 2009)
- Form and Substance in Labour Market Policies, in The Intersection of Rights and Regulation: New Directions in Sociolegal Scholarship (Bronwen Morgan ed., Ashgate Publishing 2007)
- Rethinking Traditional Alignments: Privatization and Participatory Citizenship, in Progressive Lawyering, Globalization and Markets: Rethinking Ideology and Strategy (Clare Dalton ed., 2007)
- Governing Occupational Safety in the United States, in New Governance and Constitutionalism in Europe and the United States (Gráinne de Búrca & Joanne Scott eds., Hart Publishing 2006)
- Making Consumption Decisions By Following Personal Rules, in Inside Consumption: Frontiers of Research on Consumer Motives, Goals, and Desires (S. Ratneshwar & David Glen Mick eds., Routledge 2006) (with Amir & Ariely)
- Orchestrated Experimentalism in the Regulation of Work, in Employment Discrimination Law: Cases, Problems and Critical Perspectives (Janice McDonald, Frank Ravitch & Pamela Sumners eds., Prentice Hall 2005)
- Between Individualism and Solidarity: Collective Efforts for Social Reform in the Heterogeneous Workplace, in Research in the Sociology of Work (Lisa Keister ed., 2004)
Other Print and Electronic Media
- Banning Noncompetes Is Good for Innovation, Harvard Business Review (2023) (with Lemley)
- How Competition Forced Barbie to Step into the 21st Century, The Hill (2023)
- The Business Case for a Nationwide Ban on Noncompetes, The Hill (2023)
- Supporting Market Accountability, Workplace Equity, and Fair Competition by Reining in Non-Disclosure Agreements, Day One Project (2022) (with Arnow-Richman, Carlson, Roginsky, Short & Starr)
- Why Your Privacy Shouldn’t Be So Private, The Hill (2022)
- Banning Noncompete Agreements to Create Competitive Job Markets, Day One Project (2021) (with Lemley)
- Should Noncompete Clauses for Executives Be Legal? No: They Reduce Wages and Job Mobility, Wall Street Journal (2021)
- Why California Is Such a Talent Magnet, Harvard Business Review (2016)
- High Tech Hubs & Post-Employment Restrictions: Hawaii Joins California in its Ban of Non-Competes, Casetext (2015)
- Don't Let the Law Undermine Employee Incentives, Harvard Business Review (2014) (with Bessen)
- Suppressing Mobility Suppresses Innovation, The New York Times (2014)
- My Ideas, My Boss's Property, The New York Times (2014)
- Understanding the Copyright Wars: Aereo, Google, and GoldieBlox, Harvard Business Review (2014)
- Compensation Should be Guided by Merit, The Wall Street Journal (2014)
- Why Noncompetes May Give You the Least Desirable Employees, The Wall Street Journal (2014)
- Aereo Isn't Illegal Just Because It Threatens Broadcasters, Harvard Business Review (2014)
- How Noncompetes Stifle Innovation, Harvard Business Review (2014) (with Amir)
- Stop Trying to Control How Ex-Employees Use Their Knowledge, Harvard Business Review (2014) (with Bessen)
- Use Internships to Enhance Your Company's Footprint, The Wall Street Journal (2014)
- America's Hypocritical Approach to Economic Espionage, Fortune (2013)
- The Benefits of Talent Mobility, Businessweek (2013)
- Aggressive Talent Wars are Good for Cities, Harvard Business Review (2013)
- Filing for a Patent Versus Keeping Your Invention a Trade Secret, Harvard Business Review (2013)