Katherine Stone (academic)

Katherine Stone
Occupations
  • Legal scholar
  • lawyer
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2008)
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
Sub-discipline
United States labor law
Institutions

Katherine Van Wezel Stone is an American legal scholar. Originally working as a lawyer in New York City, she worked as a law professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Cornell Law School before moving to the UCLA School of Law, where she became the Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Distinguished Professor of Law. A 2008 Guggenheim Fellow, she specializes in United States labor law and has won the Michael Harrington Award for her book From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace (2004).

Biography

Stone obtained a BA magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1970 and a JD cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1979,[1] and authored the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union's Handbook for OCAW Women (1973).[2] She was a practicing lawyer for the New York City law firms Cohen, Weiss & Simon from 1979 to 1981 and Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman from 1981 to 1984.[1][3]

In 1984, Stone became a professor of law at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.[3] After serving as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School (1990-1991), she left Yeshiva to become a Professor of Law at Cornell Law School in 1992.[3] She was also Anne Evans Estabrook Professor of Dispute Resolution at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations.[1] While at Cornell, she was also a visiting professor at Stanford Law School (1997) and Yale Law School (1999-2000).[3] In 2004, she joined the faculty of the UCLA School of Law; she was eventually appointed the Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Distinguished Professor of Law.[2]

Stone specializes in United States labor law.[2] She won the American Political Science Association's 2005 Michael Harrington Award for her 2004 book From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace.[4] In 2008, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Law,[5] and she was a 2008-2009 Russell Sage Foundation Fellow.[6] She co-edited the volumes Rethinking Comparative Labor Law: Bridging the Past and the Future (2007)[7] and Rethinking Workplace Regulation: Beyond the Standard Contract of Employment (2013).[a] She was author of Globalization and Labor Standards Annotated Bibliography: An Essential Research Tool (2014).[2] She is founder of the Globalization and Labor Standards Bibliographic Archive and Database, an abstract database specializing in international labor.[1] Outside of labor law, she authored Private Justice: Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Law (2000) and Arbitration Law (2021).[2]

Stone's grandfather was Sarasota philanthropist Lewis Van Wezel.[8] As of 2022, she lives in Los Angeles.[8]

Works

  • Handbook for OCAW Women (1973)[2]
  • The Post-War Paradigm in American Labor Law (1983)[9]
  • Private Justice: Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Law (2000)[2]
  • From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace (2004)[b]
  • (ed. with Benjamin Aaron) Rethinking Comparative Labor Law: Bridging the Past and the Future (2007)[7]
  • (ed. with Harry Arthurs) Rethinking Workplace Regulation: Beyond the Standard Contract of Employment (2013)[a]
  • Globalization and Labor Standards Annotated Bibliography: An Essential Research Tool (2014)[2]
  • Arbitration Law (2021)[2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Reviews of this book:[13][14]
  2. ↑ Reviews of this book:[10][11][12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Katherine V. W. Stone". Cornell Law School. Retrieved July 10, 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Stone, Katherine". UCLA School of Law. Retrieved July 10, 2026.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "International Collaborative on Social Europe | Conferences, Lectures, Workshops |". University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Retrieved July 11, 2026.
  4. ↑ "Section 27". American Political Science Association. Retrieved July 10, 2026.
  5. ↑ "Katherine V. W. Stone". Guggenheim Fellowships. Retrieved July 10, 2026.
  6. ↑ "Katherine V. W. Stone". Russell Sage Foundation. Retrieved July 10, 2026.
  7. 1 2 "RETHINKING COMPARATIVE LABOR LAW: BRIDGING THE PAST AND THE FUTURE". Vandeplas Publishing LLC. Retrieved July 10, 2026.
  8. 1 2 Stone, Anthony Van Wezel; Stone, Katherine V.W. (June 21, 2022). "The Van Wezel deserves to stay and we need answers on its fate". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. p. A10 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ Schatz, Ronald W. (1989). "Into the Twilight Zone: The Law and the American Industrial Relations System since the New Deal". International Labor and Working-Class History (36): 51–60. ISSN 0147-5479. JSTOR 27671832.
  10. ↑ Cherry, Miriam A. (2006). "No Longer Just Company Men: The Flexible Workforce and Employment Discrimination". Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law. 27 (1): 209–222. ISSN 1067-7666. JSTOR 24052219.
  11. ↑ Laskawy, Michael (2005). "Review of From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace". Contemporary Sociology. 34 (6): 636–638. ISSN 0094-3061. JSTOR 4147120.
  12. ↑ Patel, Seema (2005). "Review of From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace". Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law. 26 (1): 207–211. ISSN 1067-7666. JSTOR 24052192.
  13. ↑ Weil, David (2013). "A Glass Half Empty or Half Full? Rethinking Regulation: Beyond the Standard Contract of Employment". Perspectives on Work. 17 (1/2): 67–69. ISSN 1534-9276. JSTOR 24572562.
  14. ↑ Weiss, Manfred (2014). "Review of Rethinking Workplace Regulation: Beyond the Standard Contract of Employment". ILR Review. 67: 786–788. ISSN 0019-7939. JSTOR 24369656.
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