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Professor Griffith is Assistant Professor of Employment and Labor Law at the ILR School.  Griffith's scholarly and teaching interests include international/comparative labor & employment law, the intersection of labor & employment law and immigration, wage and hour law, and workplace legal issues affecting low-wage workers.  She has published in both social science and legal journals.  Griffith joined Cornell's ILR faculty in the Fall of 2007 after completing a Skadden Fellowship as a Staff Attorney at the Workers' Rights Law Center of New York, Inc. in New York's Hudson Valley.  Griffith served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Rosemary S. Pooler in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  She is a cum laude graduate of NYU School of Law, where she was a Root Tilden Kern Public Interest Scholar and an Editor-in-Chief of the N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social Change.  Before earning her J.D. from NYU Law School, Griffith conducted research on women workers and labor law in Mexico as a Rotary Scholar and in El Salvador as a Fulbright Scholar.