Samuel Estreicher is Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, director of its Center for Labor and Employment[1] and co-director of its Opperman Institute of Judicial Administration.[2] He has published several books including casebooks in labor law and employment discrimination and employment law; written treatises in employment law and in labor law; edited global issues in labor law, global issues in employment law, global issues in employment discrimination law, and global issues in employee benefits law; edited conference volumes on sexual harassment, employment ADR processes, and cross-global human resources; and authored over 100 articles in professional and academic journals.
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Born in the displaced-persons camp at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, in 1948, Estreicher and his parents came to the U.S. two years later, settling first in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and then in the Bronx, New York. Estreicher graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1966. He received his A.B. from Columbia College in 1970, his M.S. (Industrial Relations) from Cornell University in 1974 and his J.D. from Columbia Law School the following year. At Columbia, he was editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review. After law school Estreicher clerked for the late Harold Leventhal of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, practiced with a union-side law firm, and then clerked for the late Lewis F. Powell, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court.[3] In 1978 Estreicher joined the faculty of New York University School of Law, where he teaches labor and employment law, appellate advocacy and courses in international law.
Mr. Estreicher is the former Secretary of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the American Bar Association, a former chair of the Committee on Labor and Employment Law of the Association of the Bar for the City of New York, and chief reporter of the new Restatement of Employment Law, sponsored by the American Law Institute.[4] He has delivered named lectureships at UCLA, Chicago-Kent,[5] Case Western and Cleveland State law schools, testified before the Commission on the Future of U.S. Worker-Management Relations, and has run dozens of workshops for federal and state judges, U.S. Department of Labor lawyers, NLRB lawyers, EEOC lawyers, court law clerks, employment mediators and practitioners generally.
Estreicher is of counsel to Jones Day in their labor and employment and appellate practice groups. His practice focuses on the wide range of issues affecting the employment relationship. These efforts include including designing ADR systems, training supervisors for performance-based management and employee involvement initiatives, advising clients in OFCCP, EEO and labor relations compliance and representing clients in individual, global HR management, and class EEO and Wage and Hour litigation.
Mr. Estreicher's appellate practice includes victory as co-counsel in the Supreme Court in Circuit City, Inc. v. Adams, 532 U.S. 105 (2001), broadening the availability of employment arbitration, and Giles v. California, 128 S.Ct. 2678 (2008), expanding Confrontation Clause rights of criminal defendants. He recently argued, on behalf of experts in international law and foreign relations law of the United States, in the landmark Alien Tort Suit case, Presbyterian Church of Sudan v. Talisman Energy, Inc., 582 F.3d 244 (2d Cir. 2009). Estreicher's appellate practice also provided amicus representation (before the NLRB and in the Supreme Court) of the American Civil Liberties Union, Cato Institute, the Center for Public Resources, DaimlerChrysler, Ford, GM, the US Chamber of Commerce, the Society for Human Resource Management, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Black Alliance for Educational Options, the American Jewish Committee, and the Council for Employment Law Equity. Mr. Estreicher is a member of the arbitration/mediation panels of the American Arbitration Association and Center for Public Resources, and is a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.