David Webber

David Webber is the author of The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon, published by Harvard University Press and featured in his Rorotoko interview. He has also 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. Webber 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. He has published op-eds in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and Reuters. He has been interviewed by television, radio, and print media, including Nightly Business Report, NPR’s Marketplace, Bloomberg Radio, The Majority Report with Sam Seder, The David Pakman Show, Knowledge@Wharton Business Radio, CSPAN’s BookTV, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, 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.