Breadcrumbs
Highlights
- “Protecting Home Care Workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act” (Policy Brief, Direct Care Alliance 2009), at http://blog.directcarealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/6709-dca_policybrief_2final.pdf.
- Principles of Employment Law, with R. Gely, A. Hodges, & S. Stabile (West Publishing, Concise Hornbook Series, 2009)
- Editorial Board, Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal
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Consulting Group, Direct Care Alliance/Russell Sage Foundation Working Group on Care
Peggie Smith
Murray Family Professor of Law
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BA, Yale University, 1987
MA, Yale University, 1990
JD, Harvard Law School, 1993 - Email peggie-smith@uiowa.edu
- Phone 319-335-9032
- Office 411 Boyd Law Building
- C.V. download PDF
- Bibliography download PDF
Professor Smith joined the law faculty in the fall of 2003. Prior to joining the Iowa faculty, she taught at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology. Professor Smith received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale University, and has started her Ph.D. work in American Studies. She is a 1993 graduate of Harvard Law School where she was Editor in Chief of the Harvard Women's Law Journal. Professor Smith clerked for the Honorable Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in 1994-95, before returning to Harvard as a Charles Hamilton Houston Fellow in Law Teaching.
A former visiting fellow at Cornell’s School of Industrial Labor Relations, Professor Smith presently teaches Contracts, Employment Relationships, and a seminar on Gender and Work. Her research focuses on the legal implications caused by the separation between race and gender, home and work, and work and family. Professor Smith has written extensively on the legal treatment of in-home care work and workers. Her scholarship on private paid household workers, published in the North Carolina Law Review and Wisconsin Law Review, highlights the interlocking roles of race, gender, and class in the historical development of labor standards. Articles on the unionization of home care workers and family child care providers have appeared in various publications including the Minnesota Law Review and Iowa Law Review. Other articles, which have explored legal models that can help workers forge an acceptable balance between work responsibilities and family obligations, have appeared in the Michigan Journal of Law & Reform and the Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law. Professor Smith is currently working on projects relating to work-family accommodation theory, caregiving, and the school desegregation case of Briggs v. Elliot.
During the summer of 2003, Professor Smith was a visiting professor at the University of Trento, Faculty of Jurisprudence, in Trento, Italy where she taught Comparative Employment Discrimination Law.