Distinguished professor of law
and
Sidney Reitman Scholar (Labor Law; Employment Law; Contracts; Immigration Law)
Professor Hyde earned his A.B. from Stanford and his J.D. from
Yale. Before coming to Rutgers, he was an instructor at New York
University School of Law and represented the National Labor Relations
Board in federal courts of appeals. He is the author of Working in Silicon Valley: Economic and Legal Analysis of a High-Velocity Labor Market (2003) and Bodies of Law (1997), and the co-author of Legal Rights and Interests in the Workplace: Cases and Materials on Employment and Labor Law (with C.W. Summers and K.G. Dau-Schmidt, 2007) and Cases and Materials on Labor Law
(2nd ed., 1982) (with C.W. Summers and H.H. Wellington). He has been a
visiting professor at Yale, Columbia, Cornell, New York University,
Cardozo, the University of Michigan, and the University of Toronto law
schools.
Professor Hyde's current research projects include bargaining
structures for low-wage service workers, game theory analysis of
transnational labor standards, and the design of a North American free
labor market. He is a director of the Association for Union Democracy,
and frequently writes briefs in labor and employment cases on behalf of
the Association and other employee rights organizations.
