law: Faculty
- Titles:
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Associate Professor of Law
- Clinical Staff Attorney
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Associate Professor of Law
- Department:
- Law
- Campus:
- San Francisco
415-442-6649
- hshah@ggu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
- Clinical Teaching
- Labor and Employment Law
- Low Wage & Immigrant Workers
EDUCATION
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JD, Hastings College of the Law, University of California
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BSW, University of Texas at Austin
PROFESSIONAL AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Over 10 years experience advocating on employment and labor issues affecting unionized and low-wage immigrant workers.
- Former director of the Labor/Employment Project at the Asian Law Caucus, Inc.
- Former Member of Board of Directors and Past President, Sweatshop Watch.
- Practice experience at several union-side labor firms.
- Former staff attorney, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
- Helped establish the Eviction Defense Center - Oakland, CA.
- Former reviewer/contributor to Asian-American Women: Issues, Concerns, and Responsive Human and Civil Rights Advocacy, Lora Jo Foo, Ford Foundation (2001).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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With Marci Seville. Domesetic Worker Organizing: Building a Contemporary Movement for Dignity and Power, 75 Albany Law Review 413 (2012)
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Broadening Low-Wage Workers' Access to Justice: Guaranteeing Unpaid Wages in Targeted Industries, 28 Hofstra Labor & Empl. L. J. 9 (2011)
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with Marci Seville. Complex Employment Issues in Elder Care, The Recorder, 3/2/2011.
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Ethnic and Religious Discrimination, American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law, Equal Employment Opportunity Committee (2002).
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How Anna Won Her Wages: How to File Wage Claims & Know Your Workplace Rights, Multi-lingual Educational Materials for Low-wage Workers, Asian Law Caucus (2001).
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Asian Law Journal Symposium on Labor and Immigration, 6 Asian Law Journal, 217 (1999).
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
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Member, California State Bar