Colloquium
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
12:30 pm
279 Haines Hall
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Mobilizing Law for Low-Wage Workers: Evidence from Los AngelesPresented by Scott Cummings, UCLA |
About the Speaker
SCOTT CUMMINGS teaches Business Associations, Professional Responsibility, and Community Economic Development. He is currently faculty chair of the Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. His scholarship focuses on the organization and practice of public interest law, and he is currently working on projects that examine the operation of small public interest firms, the development of public interest law systems abroad, and the role of lawyers in the anti-sweatshop movement in Los Angeles. Professor Cummings’ articles appear in the Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, Duke Law Journal, and the UCLA Law Review.
In law school, Professor Cummings served as executive editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. He clerked for Judge A. Wallace Tashima of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge James B. Moran of the Northern District of Illinois. In 1996, Professor Cummings was awarded a Skadden Fellowship to work in the Community Development Project at Public Counsel in Los Angeles, where he provided transactional legal assistance to nonprofit organizations and small businesses engaged in community revitalization efforts.
This event is co-sponsored with the Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy and the Center for the Study of Urban Poverty.
