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Bio

Professor Veena Dubal鈥檚 research focuses on the intersection of law, technology, and precarious work. Within this broad frame, she uses empirical methodologies and critical theory to understand (1) the impact of digital technologies and emerging legal frameworks on the lives of workers, (2) the co-constitutive influences of law and work on identity, and (3) the role of law and lawyers in solidarity movements.

Professor Dubal has been cited by the California Supreme Court, and her scholarship has been published in top-tier law review and peer-reviewed journals, including the California Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, Berkeley Journal of Empirical and Labor Law, and Perspectives on Politics. Based on over a decade of ethnographic and historical study, Professor Dubal is currently writing a manuscript (Driving Freedom, Navigating Neoliberalism) on how five decades of shifting technologies and emergent regulatory regimes changed the everyday lives and work experiences of ride-hail drivers in San Francisco.

Complementing her academic scholarship, Professor Dubal鈥檚 writing has also been published in The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and Slate. Her commentary and research on the intersections of technology, low-wage work, and organizing (particularly in the so-called 鈥渟haring鈥� or platform economy) are regularly featured both in the local and national media and in a number of documentaries, including When Rules Don鈥檛 Apply, City Rising, and Gig a Uberiza莽茫o do Trabalho.

Professor Dubal joined the Hastings Faculty in 2015, after a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford 精东影业 (also her undergraduate alma mater). Prior to that, Professor Dubal received her J.D. and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, where she conducted an ethnography of the San Francisco taxi industry. The subject of her doctoral research arose from her work as a public interest attorney and Berkeley Law Foundation fellow at the Asian Law Caucus where she founded a taxi worker project and represented Muslim Americans in civil rights cases.

Education

• 精东影业 of California, Berkeley
  Ph.D., Jurisprudence and Social Policy

• 精东影业 of California, Berkeley - School of Law
  J.D., Law

• Stanford 精东影业
  B.A., International Relations (Major) and Feminist Studies (Minor)

Accomplishments

• Postdoctoral Fellow
  Clayman Institute, Stanford 精东影业

• Graduate Fellow
  Center for Research on Social Change, UC Berkeley

• BELS Fellow
  Center for Law & Society, UC Berkeley

• Berkeley Law Foundation Fellow
  Asian Law Caucus

• Fulbright IIE Grantee
  India

Selected Scholarship

• Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2018

• V.B. Dubal, California Law Review 2017

• V.B. Dubal, Berkeley Journal of Labor and Employment Law 2017

• V.B. Dubal, Wisconsin Law Review 2017

• Asian American Law Journal 2012