WORK LAW COLLOQUIUM PRESENTS: 

Veena Dubal 

Machinery of Dispossession

Professor Veena Dubal’s research focuses broadly on law, technology, and precarious workers, with her work encompassing a range of topics. It includes the impact of digital technologies and emerging legal frameworks on workers’ lives, the interplay between law, work, and identity, and the role of law and lawyers in solidarity movements.
Professor Dubal has written numerous articles and her research has been cited internationally in legal decisions. Her research and commentary are regularly featured including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and the like. TechCrunch has called Prof. Dubal an “unlikely star in the tech world,” and her expertise is frequently sought by regulatory bodies, workers, and unions worldwide. She is completing a book manuscript that presents a theoretical reappraisal of how low-income immigrant and racial minority workers experience and respond to shifting technologies and regulatory regimes. The manuscript draws upon a decade of interdisciplinary ethnographic research on taxi and ride-hail regulations and worker organizing and advocacy in San Francisco.