Alison D. Morantz
Professor of Law and John A. Wilson Distinguished Faculty Scholar

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Lewis V. Wade, Jeffery Kohler, Michael Sapko, Alison Morantz, An Independent Panel Assessment of an Internal Review of MSHA Enforcement Actions at the Upper Big Branch Mine South, Requested by The Honorable Hilda L. Solis, Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor, March 22, 2012.
Alison Morantz, Does Unionization Strengthen Regulatory Enforcement? An Empirical Study of the Mine Safety and Health Administration, 14 New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 697 (2011).
Alison D. Morantz, Coal Mine Safety: Do Unions Make a Difference?, Stanford Law & Economics Olin Paper Series Paper No. 413, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Law School, 2011.
Alison Morantz, Opting Out of Workers' Compensation in Texas: A Survey of Large, Multistate Nonsubscribers, in Regulation versus Litigation , Daniel P. Kessler, editor, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Alison D. Morantz, The Elusive Union Safety Effect:Towards a New Empirical Research Agenda, Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Labor and Employment Relations Association, pg. 130 (2009).
Alison D. Morantz, Has Devolution Injured American Workers? State and Federal Enforcement of Construction Safety, 25 Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 183 (2009).
Alison D. Morantz and Alexandre Mas, Does Post-Accident Drug Testing Reduce Injuries? Evidence from a Large Retail Chain, 10 American Law & Economics Review 246 (2008).
Alison D. Morantz, There’s No Place Like Home: Homestead Exemption And Judicial Construction of "Family" in Nineteenth-Century America, 24 Law and History Review 1 (Summer 2006).
Alison D. Morantz, Construction Site Regulation and OSHA Decentralization, Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting Industrial Relations Research Association (2003).
Alison D. Morantz, Teens in the Workforce, 11 Regional Review of Boston Federal Reserve 18 (2001).
Alison D. Morantz, Money and Choice in Kansas City: Major Investments with Modest Returns, in Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown V. Board of Education Gary Orfield ed., New York, NY:The New Press, 1996. p. 241-263.
Alison D. Morantz, Desegregation at Risk: Threat and Reaffirmation in Charlotte, in Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown V. Board of Education Gary Orfield ed., New York, NY:The New Press, 1996. p. 179-206.

amorantz@law.stanford.edu

650 725.5256

Curriculum Vitae

SSRN Published Papers

Education:

BA Harvard University 1993
MSc (Economics of Development) University of Oxford 1995
JD Yale Law School 2000
PhD (Economics) Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 2001

Expertise:

Antidiscrimination Law
Contracts
Employment Discrimination
Labor and Employment Law
Law and Economics
Legal History
Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
Public Policy and Empirical Studies
Race and the Law