Jonathan F. Harris is a nationally recognized expert in labor and employment law, contracts, and workforce development. His publications have appeared or are forthcoming in the Georgetown Law Journal (twice), California Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Alabama Law Review, Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, Harvard Law Review Blog, California Law Review Online, Northwestern University Law Review Online, and New York City Law Review. His research has brought national attention to Training Repayment Agreement Provisions (TRAPs) that often require workers to pay large sums to leave their jobs
Professor Harris has been a peer-reviewer for publications including the Yale Law Journal, a senior fellow with the Student Borrower Protection Center, and a grantee of the University of California Student Loan Law Initiative. He is also a Faculty Fellow with the Temple Fox School of Business’s Responsible Business Institute (RBI), where he contributes to the RBI’s workplace research and education. His writing has been cited by federal entities including the FTC in its rule banning non-competes, NLRB, CFPB, and Senate Banking Committee. Major news outlets have quoted Professor Harris, including the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, and Washington Post.
Before joining the Temple faculty, Professor Harris was an associate professor at Loyola Law School Los Angeles and an acting assistant professor of lawyering at NYU School of Law. He is a past chair of the AALS Section on Labor Relations and Employment Law, as well as an executive committee member of the AALS Section on Employment Discrimination Law and Section on Poverty Law. He was a co-organizer of the Michael A. Olivas Writing Institute and is a member of the Mexican American Bar Association. Professor Harris clerked for Judge James E. Graves, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit while teaching at Mississippi College School of Law. He began his legal career as a Skadden Fellow, focusing on the intersections of employment and consumer law. Prior to that, he was a labor and community organizer.