Publication
Chicago-Kent Law Review
Volume
99
Page
101
Year
2025
Abstract
Part I surveys some of the leading arguments concerning the benefits and costs of worker governance. It also describes some of the ways in which those benefits and costs can evolve along with the growth, or lack thereof, of companies with worker governance. Part II looks at governance in law firms. It considers how the explanations for the adoption of worker governance fare with respect to law firms, notes the limited, elitist nature of worker governance within law firms, and considers the consequences of that real but elitist worker governance for the understanding of lawyers. Part III considers the same questions for governance at law schools and universities. Part IV concludes that the path-dependence story of business counselors and the adoption of worker governance survives recognition of the fact that lawyers and law professors experience self-governance at their own work. Despite this experience with self-governance, their self-conception as elite professionals keeps them from considering that the self-governance they fight to protect for themselves might be valued by others, even though those others are not so learned and privileged as they are.
Recommended Citation
Brett H. McDonnell, Lawyers’ and Law Professors’ Experience with Worker Governance, 99 101 (2025), available at https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/faculty_articles/1103.
Rights
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