Courses Taught

Labor Law
Employment Discrimination
Employment Law
Family Law
Feminist Legal Theory

Profile

Professor Marion Crain, an expert in labor and employment law, directs the law school’s Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Work and Social Capital. Her scholarship examines the relationships among gender, work, and class status with a particular emphasis on collective action and labor relations. She is the author or co-author of a labor law casebook, an employment law casebook, and numerous law review articles and book chapters on labor and employment law, labor unionism, and the working poor. Professor Crain is chair of the Labor Law Group, an international collective of labor and employment law professors who work collaboratively to improve labor and employment law pedagogy through the production of course materials, and serves on the editorial board of the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal. In addition to her legal research and scholarship, she received the David M. Becker Professor of the Year Award in 2009 for excellence in teaching.  Professor Crain serves as Vice Provost for Washington University.  Her service to the law school includes chairing the Decanal Review Committee; chairing the Student Life Committee and chairing the Promotion & Tenure Committee. Before joining the law faculty, she practiced labor and employment law with Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles; clerked for the Hon. Arthur L. Alarcon, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; and taught at several other law schools.