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Hiba Hafiz

Associate Professor

McHale Faculty Research Scholar

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Hiba Hafiz is an associate professor with tenure and a McHale Faculty Research Scholar. She joined òòò½Ö±²¥ Law as an assistant professor in 2018, and teaches and writes in labor and employment law, antitrust law, and administrative law. Her work focuses on strengthening workers’ bargaining power and legal solutions to labor market concentration and inequality.

Hafiz has published or has forthcomingÌýarticles in theÌýUniversity of Chicago Law Review,ÌýColumbia Law Review,ÌýUniversity of Pennsylvania Law Review,ÌýMichigan Law Review,ÌýDuke Law Journal,ÌýWashington University Law Review,ÌýWisconsin Law Review, andÌýCardozo Law Review, among other law journals. Her writing has been featured in news and radio outlets, and academic blogs and podcasts, including theÌýNew York Times,ÌýThe Atlantic, WBUR,ÌýLaw and Political Economy Blog,ÌýWashington Center for Equitable Growth’sÌýCompetitive EdgeÌýseries,ÌýProMarket Blog, Competition Policy International’s Antitrust Chronicle,ÌýColumbia Law School Blue Sky Blog,ÌýOur Curious Amalgam,ÌýandÌýThe Sling.ÌýSheÌýhas served as an Expert Advisor to the Federal Trade Commission and is currentlyÌýan affiliateÌýfellow at Yale University'sÌýThurman Arnold Project, as well asÌýa FellowÌýatÌýthe Roosevelt Institute.

Between 2011 and 2013, Hafiz clerked for JudgeÌýJuan R. Torruella of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Judge José L. Linares of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. After clerking, she practiced law in the Antitrust Practice Group at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll in Washington, D.C., where she represented plaintiffs in antitrust class actions against pharmaceutical companies and employers. Hafiz left practice to become a Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow and lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, where she taught legal research and writing and a seminar on work law in the new economy.

After graduatingÌýwith a B.A. from Wellesley College, Hafiz completed a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Yale University. During her doctoral program, she served as a union organizer for graduate students and joined broader campaigns to organize service sector workers. She enrolled in Columbia Law School to further study workers' rights. After graduating in 2010, she represented farmworker victims of trafficking as a David W. Leebron Human Rights Fellow at the International Rights Advocates.Ìý

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