Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Distinguished Professor of Law

University of California, Berkeley

I teach and write on the law of work, the legal profession, and civil rights and civil liberties.

Selected Books and Recent Articles

BOOKS

California Employment Law: Cases and Materials (2025).

The Legal Profession: Ethics in Contemporary Practice (West Academic 3d ed. 2024, 2d ed. 2019, 1 st ed. 2014) (with Ann Southworth)

Writing for Hire: Unions, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue (Harvard University Press 2016).

Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009, paperback ed. 2014).

Articles

Democracy and a Nonpartisan Civil Service, 67 ARIZONA LAW REVIEW 629 (2025).

Disputed and Disfavored: Pain, Mental Illness, and Invisible Conditions in Disability Discrimination Cases, SOCIAL SCIENCE AND MEDICINE (2025), (with Rachel K. Best, Yan Fang, Linda Hamilton Krieger, Diana Reddy, and the late Lauren Edelman).

More

Jewish Lawyers and the Labor Movement, 93 FORDHAM LAW REVIEW 1159 (2025) (Symposium on Lawyers and their Institutions).

Independent Contractors and the ABCs of Contract Law, 66 ARIZONA LAW REVIEW 607 (2024) (with Hanoch Dagan).