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David Webber

Webber is Professor of Law at Boston University and the author of “The Rise of the Working Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon.” He has published scholarly articles including “The Use and Abuse of Labor’s Capital” in the New York University Law Review and “The Plight of the Individual Investor in Securities Class Actions” in the Northwestern University Law Review. He has presented his research at the Harvard Stanford Yale Junior Faculty Forum, the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, and the American Law and Economics Association conference, among others. Webber has published op-eds in the The New York Times, including his most recent piece “The Real Reason the Investor Class Hates Pensions,” The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and Reuters, and has appeared on the Nightly Business Report, NPR’s Marketplace, Knowledge@Wharton Business Radio, Agence France-Presse, and others. Webber is the winner of Boston University School of Law’s 2017 Michael Melton Award for Teaching Excellence. He is a graduate of Columbia and NYU Law School, where he was an editor for the law review.