Gali Racabi is an assistant professor at Cornell's ILR School and an associated faculty member of Cornell Law School. His research and writing focus on various employment and labor law topics.
Racabi has published work in leading journals, including the Yale Law Journal, Cornell Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, ILR Review, Tulane Law Review, Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, and the Yale Journal of Law and Technology. Before coming to ILR, Racabi completed his doctorate from Harvard Law School in 2022.
Publications
- In Lieu of the NLRA, 2026 Wisconsin L. Rev. 493 (link)
- Reviewed in The Regulatory Review (Nov. 20, 2025) (link)
- DEI Son of Deference, 46 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 235 (2025) (link)
- Varieties of Workplace A.I. Regulations: A Focus on the U.S. (with Adam Seth Litwin), 75 ILR Rev. 799 (2024) (link)
- Excluded but Equal, 33 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts J. 209 (2024) (link)
- At Will as Taking, 133 Yale L.J. 2257 (2024) (link)
- Tagged as “Highly Recommended!” by the Legal Theory Blog
- Balancing is for Suckers, 109 Cornell L. Rev. 63 (2023) (link)
- Tagged as “Highly Recommended!” by the Legal Theory Blog (link)
- Tech Drift and Powerlessness, 24 Yale J.L. & Tᴇᴄʜ. 554 (2022) (link)
- Abolish the Employer Prerogative, Unleash Work Law, 43 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 79 (2022) (link)
- Selected for review in JOTWELL (link)
- Effects of City–State Relations on Labor Relations: The Case of Uber, 74 ILR Rev. 1155 (2021) (link)
- Despite the Binary: Looking for Power Outside the Employee Status, 95 Tul. L. Rev. 1167 (2021) (link)
Multi-Tier Collective Bargaining Agreements, Lab. Soct’y. & L. (2017) [Hebrew] (link)
Policy & Other Writings
- Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of Work Law, ILR Rev. (2026) (link)
- Caste Discrimination in NY – Starting a Conversation, Cornell Law Working Papers Series (2025) (with Pranathi Charasala) (link)
- In Lieu of the NLRA: How State Laws Can Rebuild Worker Power, Power at Work Blog (May 11, 2025) (link)
- What are Trigger Laws?, CAROW Center Explainer (2025) (link) (with Megan Thorsfeldt)
- Workplace A.I. Regulations, Arlozerov Forum Review Paper (2025) (Hebrew link) (English link)
- Transportation Network Companies (TNC) and Marketplace Contractors (MC) State Laws: Preemption of Local Government Regulations and Treatment of Employment Status of Drivers (2018, 2025 update) [50 State Survey] (link)
- Fissured Work in Israel, Arlozerov Forum Paper [Hebrew] (forthcoming 2026)
- Published on Onlabor.org, Power at Work, and more.
Honors and Awards
2025- Kendall S. Carpenter Advising Award, Cornell University
2023- Robert Stern Award for Teaching and Mentoring, ILR School, Cornell University
2017–2022
Fellow, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School
Doctoral Democracy Fellow, Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School
Graduate Fellow, Program of Negotiations at Harvard Law School
Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
Program on Negotiations Junior Scholar Grant
Professional activities
University & School
Policy 6.4 (Title IX) Pool Panel Member & Investigator, Cornell University (2023–)
Freedom of Speech and the Workplace Lecture Series, organizer, Cornell ILR (2024)
Faculty Advisor for
Phi Alpha Delta (2025–)
The Cornell Undergraduate Law & Society Review (2024–)
Field
- Prison Labor, and Discipline Conference, co-organizer, Cornell ILR.
- Junior Work Law Scholars Conference, co-organizer,
- Berkeley Law School (2026) (with Diana Reddy, Yiran Zhang)
- Columbia Labor Lab (2025) (with Kate Andrias, Yiran Zhang)
- Cornell ILR (2024) (with Yiran Zhang)