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Pamela Izvănariu

Adjunct Professor of Law

Adjunct

School of Law

Profile

As a legal and sociological scholar, Professor Pamela Izvănariu uses historical, legal, and empirical methodologies to investigate both historical and contemporary questions on law, labor, inequality, and social movements. At one end, her research examines the unrecognized movement lawyering, mobilization, and empirical methods of John P. Davis as he exposed and challenged discriminatory labor and employment law in the early New Deal. At the other, it explores the impact of platform-based companies and emerging platform-based worker law on the lives of workers in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe. Her current research includes an examination of platform-based work law and work that builds on multi-year ethnographic research in South Florida.

Professor Izvănariu’s work has been published in top-tier law review and peer-reviewed journals, including Michigan Journal on Race & Law, Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, and the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Her work as an educator has been recognized by the Kennedy Center, which awarded Professor Izvănariu the Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award in 2016.

Prior to joining the University of Dayton, Professor Izvănariu served as Director and faculty member of Florida International University’s Research Institute for Social and Economic Policy, and as the Director and faculty member of Research and Development at University of California, Los Angeles’ Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.