H EATHER M.
W HITNEY heatherwhitney@uchicago.edu • (415) 347 6896
C URRENT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL , Chicago, IL July 2014 – present
P OSITION Bigelow Fellow & Lecturer in Law
BERKMAN CENTER OF INTERNET & SOCIETY Summer 2014 – present
Faculty Associate
E DUCATION HARVARD LAW SCHOOL , J.D., May 2013
Honors: magna cum laude
Dean’s Prize (Copyright, Contracts, Criminal Law, and Legal Research and Writing)
Activities: Journal of Law and Technology : Submissions Editor (Chair), Volume 26
Research Assistant: Michael Klarman; Larry Lessig; Ben Sachs
Teaching Fellow: Copyright edX (Terry Fisher); Civil Procedure (Jim Greiner)
Summer Academic Fellow (Advisors: Jack Goldsmith [2013] and Phil Malone [2011])
Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School: Student Attorney
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES (UCLA) , B.A. in Philosophy, May 2008
Honors: summa cum laude ; Phi Beta Kappa; College and Departmental Honors
Kalish Prize (awarded to the top philosophy students in the department)
Dean’s Prize for Research (top research presented in my division at a conference)
Undergraduate Research Scholar and Summer Research Award
P REVIOUS HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge, MA Spring 2015
L EGAL & P OLICY Copyright edX Teaching Fellow (Instructor)
E XPERIENCE
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS, SEVENTH CIRCUIT , Chicago, IL August 2013 – July 2014
Clerk, the Honorable Chief Judge Diane Wood
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL , Cambridge, MA Spring 2013 & Spring 2014
Copyright edX Teaching Fellow (Instructor)
KEKER & VAN NEST , San Francisco, CA Summer 2013
Summer Associate
BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY, Cambridge, MA Fall 2012 – Summer 2013
Fellow
JENNER & BLOCK , Washington, DC Summer 2012
Summer Associate
FACEBOOK, Washington, DC Summer 2012
Global Policy Intern
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION , San Francisco, CA Summer 2011
Law Clerk
GOOGLE , Mountain View, CA June 2007 – August 2010
Training & Project Manager, Global Ethics and Compliance Team
P RESENTATIONS Keeping Corporate Promises to Do Good , Seton Hall Employment & Labor Law Scholars’ Forum (October 2015)
The Deregulatory First Amendment and the Ban on Innovative Labor-‐‑Employer Partnerships , Marco Biagi Young
Scholars’ Workshop in Labour Relations. Modena, Italy (March 2015).
The Deregulatory First Amendment and the Ban on Innovative Labor-‐‑Employer Partnerships , Internet Work-‐‑in-‐‑
Progress Workshop. Santa Clara University School of Law, California (March 2015).
The Deregulatory First Amendment and the Ban on Innovative Labor-‐‑Employer Partnerships , Chicago Junior
Faculty Workshop. Chicago, IL (February 2015).
The Deregulatory First Amendment and the Ban on Innovative Labor-‐‑Employer Partnerships , Digital Labor
Conference. New York City, NY (November 2014).
Work here: have a voice and change the world. Are employees at the Googles and Facebooks of the world able to enforce that promise?
, Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Cambridge, MA (April 2013).
Making my data work for me and us: the evolution of Quantified Self , Berkman Center for Internet & Society,
Festival of Ideas. Cambridge, MA (October 2012).
P UBLICATIONS PrawfsBlawg Guest Blogger (July 2015)
Keeping Corporate Promises to Do Good and the Unconstitutional Ban on Employer-‐‑Labor Associations , forthcoming in __ Cardozo Law Review __ (2015))
Heather Whitney, McDonald’s and Fast Food Forward , OnLabor, Jan. 5, 2015.
Heather Whitney, The Takings Clause and Sweeney v. Pence , OnLabor, Sept. 4, 2014.
Heather Whitney, Case Comment, Williams v. Illinois , Harv. J. L. & Tech. Dig., July 18, 2012.
Heather Whitney, Case Comment, United States v. Jones , Harv. J.L. & Tech. Dig., Feb. 7, 2012.
Heather Whitney, Book Review, The Penguin and the Leviathan, Fantasy Matters, Nov. 11, 2011
M EDIA Jana Kasperkevic, McDonald’s plans to launch a charity partnership to draw millennials, The Guardian (Jan. 7,
2015) (discussing my proposal).
Brian Mahoney, Morning Shift , Politico (Jan. 6, 2015)
T EACHING I NTERESTS Primary Interests: New Economy Labor and Employment; Corporations (organizational design, governance, social responsibility, personhood); Regulation of Innovation; Intellectual Property; Property; Contracts
Secondary Interests: First Amendment and Regulation of Private Organizations; Access to Knowledge and
Education; Consumer Protection; Law & Literature; Legal Theory; Law & Philosophy
R EFERENCES
Prof. Jack Goldsmith
Harvard Law School
(617) 384 8159
jgoldsmith@law.harvard.edu
(617) 495 4601 minow@law.harvard.edu
Dean Martha Minow
Harvard Law School
Prof. Terry Fisher
Harvard Law School
Prof. Ben Sachs
Harvard Law School
Prof. Will Baude
University of Chicago Law School
(617) 495 0957 tfisher@law.harvard.edu
(617) 384 5984 bsachs@law.harvard.edu
(773) 702 0348 baude@uchicago.edu
Prof. Todd Henderson
University of Chicago Law School
Prof. Aziz Huq
University of Chicago Law School
Prof. Mary Anne Case
University of Chicago Law School
(773) 834 4168 toddh@uchicago.edu
(773) 702 9566 huq@uchicago.edu
Prof. Richard McAdams
University of Chicago Law School
The Honorable Chief Judge Diane Wood
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
(773) 834 3867 macase@law.uchicago.edu
(773) 834 2520
rmcadams@uchicago.edu
(312) 435 5521
Chambers_of_Judge_D_Wood@ca7.uscourts.gov