Lecturer in Law
- B.A. UC Berkeley
- J.D. Georgetown University Law Center
Jeremy Blasi is a labor lawyer and Lecturer at UCLA School of Law, where he co-teaches Law, Organizing, and Low-Wage Workers, a seminar-practicum focused on worker organization and power-building strategies. As a practicing labor attorney, he serves as General Counsel for UNITE HERE Local 11, a labor union representing more than 32,000 hospitality workers in Southern California and Arizona, where he represents workers and the union in a wide range of matters. He previously served as Director of Investigations for the Worker Rights Consortium, a global anti-sweatshop monitoring organization that works to protect the rights of workers producing apparel and other consumer goods.
Blasi’s research and writing focus on how labor institutions engage legal, policy, and economic structures to address labor abuses and improve standards in low-wage sectors. His scholarship has explored regulation in fissured workplaces and supply chains, including lead-firm accountability, transparency policies, and the use of international human rights instruments. He has also written about labor issues that arise beyond the workplace, including unions’ use of bargaining and public policy to address worker needs such as access to affordable housing, as well as the role of investment structures in labor disputes. His work has been published in the Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, Fordham Urban Law Journal, ILR Review, Labor Studies Journal, New Labor Forum, Global Labour Rights Reporter, and by Cornell University Press, the University of Pennsylvania Press, and the International Labour Organization.
Blasi received his B.A. summa cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley, and his J.D. cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a Public Interest Law Scholar. Following law school, he served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Dean D. Pregerson of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
Bibliography
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Articles And Chapters
- Bringing Union Power Home: Unions and the Fight for Housing Justice (with Zoe Tucker). 52:4 Fordham Urban Law Journal 992 (2025)
Full Text - Workers’ Capital and Private Equity: Fiduciary Duty and the Imperative to Address Labor Risk (with Jordan Fein). 50:4 Labor Studies Journal 300 (2025)
Full Text - Learning from LA: How Hospitality Workers Built Power and Changed Politics (with Katherine Marino, Zoe Tucker, and Aaron Greenberg). 33:1 New Labor Forum 17 (2024)
Full Text - Bargaining Up the Supply Chain: Lessons from a Cross-Sectoral Study (with Jennifer Bair and Jeffery Vogt), 2 Global Labor Rights Reporter 13 (2021).
- Private Equity, Human Rights Due Diligence, and Global Labour Rights: the Case of "Hotel California" (with Samir Sonti), 1 Global Labor Rights Reporter 44 (2021).
- The Political Economy of Private and Public Regulation in Post-Rana Plaza Bangladesh (with Jennifer Bair and Mark Anner), 73 ILR Review 969 (2020).
- An Analysis of Multiparty Bargaining Models in Global Supply Chains (with Jennifer Bair), International Labour Organization Conditions of Work and Employment Working Paper Series No. 5 (2019). Full Text
- Sweatshops and the Search for Solutions, Yesterday and Today (with Jennifer Bair and Mark Anner), in Unmaking the Global Sweatshop: Health and Safety of World’s Garment Workers, (edited by Rebecca Prentice and Geert De Neve, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).
- Learning from the Past: The Relevance of Twentieth-Century New York Jobbers’ Agreements for Twenty-First- Century Global Supply Chains (with Mark Anner and Jennifer Bair), in Achieving Workers Rights in the Global Economy , (edited by Richard Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein, Cornell University Press, 2016).
- Towards Joint Liability in Global Supply Chains: Addressing the Root Causes of Labor Violations in International Subcontracting Networks (with Mark Anner and Jennifer Bair), 35(1) Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal 1 (2013).
- Using Compliance Transparency to Combat Wage Theft, 95 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 97 (2012).
- Counterproductive and Wasteful: Los Angeles’s Daytime Curfew Pushes Kids Away from School and Diverts Resources Away from Real Community Safety (with David Sapp), ACLU of Southern California (2012).
- Bringing Union Power Home: Unions and the Fight for Housing Justice (with Zoe Tucker). 52:4 Fordham Urban Law Journal 992 (2025)