Courtlyn Roser-Jones, B.A., LL.M., J.D.,
Education and Experience
- University of Notre Dame Law School (JD)
- University of Wisconsin Law School (LLM)
- Penn State University (BA)
Biography
Courtlyn Roser-Jones is an Associate Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Prior to joining the Moritz faculty, she was the 2016-2018 William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Her primary interests are labor law, employment law, and constitutional law. Her research examines issues at the intersection of workers' rights and the Constitution and her most recent article, The Roberts Court and the Unraveling of Labor Law, was published in the Minnesota Law Review. Roser-Jones is also a co-author of the forthcoming 15th edition of Labor Relations Law: Cases and Materials.
Active in local policy efforts to strengthen workers' rights, Roser-Jones was an inaugural member of the Columbus Wage Theft Prevention and Enforcement Commission. She is now serving a three-year term on the Columbus Labor Commission. Her work with the city of Columbus and related research was recognized in 2024 as a program of excellence in engaged scholarship by the university’s Office of Outreach and Engagement. Roser-Jones graduated from Notre Dame Law School cum laude in 2013 and Wisconsin Law School in 2018. Before her fellowship, she practiced labor and employment law at Reed Smith LLP.
Using State and Local Governments' Purchasing Power to Combat Wage Theft, 80 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1937 (2024)
The Roberts Court and the Unraveling of Labor Law, 108 Minn. L. Rev. 1407 (2024)
Links: SSRN
Reconciling Agency Fee Doctrine, the First Amendment, and the Modern Public Sector Union, 112 Nw. U. L. Rev. 597 (2018)
Links: SSRN
A Costly Turnover: Why the NFL’s Bounty Scandal Could Change the Current Legal Standard of Deferring to Internal Disciplinary Sanctions in Instances of Game-Related Violence, 20 Sports L.J. 93 (2013)