Eric Fink
Associate Professor of Law
Department: ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law
Email: efink@elon.edu
Phone number: (336) 279-9334
Brief Biography
Eric Fink teaches , , and . He has also taught consumer law, labor law, cause lawyering, administrative law, and business associations. His research examines legal problems and institutions from a sociological perspective. In recent publications, he has addressed the effect of on employee mobility and exploitation, , & .
Before joining the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ faculty, Fink taught legal writing at Stanford Law School, and practiced law in San Francisco and Philadelphia. He has also taught at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia and the Anglo-American College in the Czech Republic. He has a bachelor’s degree from The Johns Hopkins University, a master’s degree in sociology from the London School of Economics, and a law degree from New York University School of Law, and was a doctoral student in sociology at the University of Chicago.
In his free time, he enjoys fly fishing, playing guitar, and cooking.
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Education
- The Johns Hopkins University, B.A. (Sociology), 1984
- London School of Economics, M.Sc. (Sociology), 1985
- University of Chicago, doctoral study in Sociology, 1987-92
- NYU School of Law, J.D., 1997
Courses Taught
2022-23
Past
- Cause Lawyering
- Consumer Protection
- Labor Law
- Administrative Law
- Social Research & Law
- Business Associations
Current Projects
- State data trespass laws & workers' rights
- Open-source tools and materials for law teaching and legal scholarship
Grants Awarded
Publications
, with Stuart Lichten, 25 Washington & Lee Journal of Civil Rights & Social Justice (forthcoming 2018)
, 52 Idaho Law Review 953 (2016)
, with Roland Zullo, Jobs With Justice Education Fund (2014)
, 14 Nevada Law Journal 444 (2014)
, 47
University of San Francisco Law Review 435 (2013)
, 21 Journal
of Law, Information and Science 89 (2011)
, 27 John Marshall Journal of Computer and Information Law 325 (2010)
, 83 Notre Dame Law Review 2019 (2008); reprinted in 29 Immigration and Nationality Law Review 45 (2008); cited in Djadjou v. Holder, 662 F.3d 265 (4th Cir. 2011) and Zuh v. Mukasey, 547 F.3d 504, 513 (4th Cir. 2008)
, 55 Hastings Law Journal 931 (2004)
Union and Employee Access to Employer E-mail Systems Under Federal Labor Law, with Stuart
W. Davidson, in The CyberUnion Handbook: Transforming Labor Through Computer Technology (A. Shostak, ed., 2002)
Contributing Editor, The Developing Labor Law (P. Hardin, ed., 4th ed. 2001
Book Note, The Caribbean: New Dynamics in Trade and Political Economy, 28 NYU Journal of International Law and Politics 644 (1996)