Marc Linder

Marc Linder is a Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law, where he has specialized in Labor Law since 1992. His career spans academia and advocacy, including seven years representing migrant farm workers at Texas Rural Legal Aid prior to his academic appointment.

• Education: BA (University of Chicago, 1966), MA (Princeton, 1971), PhD (Princeton, 1973), JD (Harvard Law School, 1983).

His research focuses on labor and employment law, with a particular emphasis on historical and comparative labor systems, agricultural labor exploitation, and judicial behavior in authoritarian contexts. His publications analyze labor dynamics across Europe, the U.S., and Nazi Germany.

Books include European Labor Aristocracies (1985), The Supreme Court in Nazi Germany (1987), and Migrant Workers and Minimum Wages (1992). These works reflect interdisciplinary interests in legal history, economic disparities, and human rights frameworks.