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Jonathan F. Harris

Jonathan Harris Portrait
Jonathan F. Harris, Associate Professor of Law

Associate Professor of Law

Senior Fellow, Student Borrower Protection Center

 

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Background

Jonathan Harris researches contracts, labor and employment law, and workforce development. His publications have appeared or are forthcoming in the Georgetown Law Journal, California 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 article, Consumer Law as Work Law, 112 Calif. L. Rev. 1 (2024), was selected for the Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum. A prior article, Unconscionability in Contracting for Worker Training, brought national attention to Training Repayment Agreement Provisions (TRAPs) that require workers to pay to quit and are used as workarounds to non-competes. He is a senior fellow with the Student Borrower Protection Center and a past grantee of the University of California Student Loan Law Initiative. Professor Harris is also a peer-review referee for the Yale Law Journal. His writing has been cited by federal entities including the FTC in its rule banning non-competes, the CFPB, and the Senate Banking Committee. Major news outlets have quoted Professor Harris, including the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, and Washington Post.

Professor Harris is the immediate 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. He was a co-organizer of the 2024 Michael A. Olivas Writing Institute and is a member of the Law and Society Association and the Mexican American Bar Association. He previously taught in the Lawyering Program at NYU School of Law. 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.

Law Review Publications

Book Chapter

  • Legal Reform for Job Training and Lifelong Learning in the United States (with Livia Lam), in Employment, Training, and Lifelong Learning (forthcoming, Routledge)

Reports

Op-Eds & Other Works

    Agency Comments & Legislative Testimony

    Amici Briefs

    • ATS Tree Services v. FTC, et al., Case No.: 2:24-cv-1743-KBH (E.D. Pa. June 7, 2024) (professors' brief in support of FTC rule banning non-competes) (one of the core drafters of the brief)
    • Ryan, LLC & Chamber of Commerce, et al. v. FTC, Case No. 3:24-CV-986-E (N.D. Tx. June 3, 2024) (professors' brief in support of FTC rule banning non-competes) (one of the core drafters of the brief)

    Media Mentions

    • Cole Cahill, Acting NRLB General Counsel Rescinds Biden-Era Memos on Noncompetes, Capitol Forum (Feb. 20, 2025)

      Presentations