Mark Barenberg, B.A., M.Sc.

Project Director

B.A., Harvard, 1977; M.Sc., London School of Economics, 1978; J.D., Harvard, 1982. Graduate study in economics and history, Harvard University, 1978-79. Editor, Harvard Law Review. Taught social theory, comparative economic history, and labor relations at Harvard University, 1979-82. Law clerk to Eugene H. Nickerson, U.S. District Judge, Eastern District of New York, 1982-83. Practiced in the areas of labor, constitutional, and international law at the firm Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman. Joined the Columbia faculty in 1987. Visiting professor, Yale, 1997, Peking, 1995. Member, International Commission on Labor Rights; Law and Society Association; and Industrial Relations Research Association. Principal areas of interest are labor and employment law, international labor rights, constitutional law, global economic institutions, legal and political theory.

Publications include

The Political Economy of the Wagner Act (1993); Democracy and Domination in Labor Law (1994); A Critical Mapping of the Law of "Social Dumping": Lessons from U.S. Federalism (1996); Labor Law and the New Global Economy (1997); Empirical Studies of Employee Involvement Programs: A Critique (1998); Constitutional Barriers to Redistribution (1999); Legal Consequences of China's Entry into the W.T.O. (2000); Coordinated Decentralization of Supranational Labor Regimes (2001); Private Monitoring of Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: Three Case Studies (2001-02); Enforcement of International Labor Rights in U.S. Law (2002); The Impact of the Free Trade Area of the Americas on Democratic Governance (2003); Workers: The Past and Future of Labor Law Scholarship (2003). Principal draftsperson of many federal, state, and local laws regulating labor conditions in companies supplying U.S. manufacturers and governments.