Sanjukta is a professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School, and an internationally recognized expert in labor, antitrust, and broader issues of law and market governance. Her new book, Solidarity in the Shadow of Antitrust: Labor and the Legal Idea of Competition, reinterprets major developments in the history of antitrust law in relation to labor and workers, and the co-development of law and economic thought. Sanjukta previously practiced law, serving as lead counsel or co-lead counsel on numerous cases on behalf of workers and civil rights plaintiffs, as well as working closely with labor unions and community organizations. She holds a JD from Yale Law School and an MA from the University of Pittsburgh.
Sanjukta Paul is a professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School. She studies, writes, and teaches mainly in the fields of labor and antitrust, and more broadly regarding issues of law and market governance. On the premise that the labor-antitrust intersection is a portal to more basic questions of economic coordination and competition spanning numerous areas of law, her current book project, Solidarity in the Shadow of Antitrust: Labor and the Legal Idea of Competition, charts and reinterprets the co-development of key strands of legal and economic thought in this area. Paul previously practiced law for several years, serving as lead counsel or co-lead counsel on numerous cases on behalf of workers and civil rights plaintiffs, as well as working closely with labor unions and community organizations. She served as a research and teaching fellow at UCLA School of Law, where she taught and directed the Workers Rights Litigation Clinic, and was then an assistant professor at Wayne State University before joining Michigan Law in 2022. She holds a JD from Yale Law School and an MA from the University of Pittsburgh.