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Gillian Lester
Title: Professor
Office: 891 Simon Hall
Tel: 510-642-5398
Email Address: glester@law.berkeley.edu
FSU Contact: Wanda Castillo
Gillian Lester's principal subject areas include employment law and policy, and contracts. Her research has explored topics including distributive justice and the welfare state, workplace intellectual property, and paid family leave.
Lester holds a J.S.D. from Stanford Law School and LL.B. from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where she served as editor in chief of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review. Lester began her teaching career in 1994 at the UCLA School of Law, where she became full professor in 1999. She joined the Berkeley Law faculty in 2006. She has also held appointments as Sidley Austin Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School (2008-09), and Sloan Fellow and Visiting Professor at Georgetown University Law Center (2000).
Lester’s books include, Jumping the Queue: An Inquiry into the Legal Treatment of Students with Disabilities (Harvard Press, 1997) (with Mark Kelman) and EMPLOYMENT LAW CASES AND MATERIALS, FOURTH ED. (Lexis-Nexis, 1997) (with Willborn, Schwab & Burton). Articles include “Means-Testing, Universalism, and the Formation of Social Preferences,” (draft manuscript); “Restrictive Covenants and Choice of Laws,” in the Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal (forthcoming, 2009); "A Defense of Paid Family Leave" in the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender (2005), and "Unemployment Insurance and Wealth Redistribution" in the UCLA Law Review (2001).
Education:
B.Sc., University of British Columbia (1986)LL.B., University of Toronto (1990)
J.S.D., Stanford University (1998)
