Professor Rosado Marzán is an internationally acclaimed socio-legal scholar and award-winning author whose work bridges theory and practice. A passionate educator, he teaches across a wide range of subjects, including contracts, labor law, employment law, employment discrimination, low-wage workers, law and political economy, and international and comparative labor and employment law. He earned the Iowa Law Collegiate Teaching Award in recognition of his exceptional teaching.

Professor Rosado Marzán is co-author of Labor Law in the Contemporary Workplace: Cases and Materials (4th ed., West Academic), for which he will serve as lead author of the fifth edition, and co-author of the award-winning Principled Labor Law: U.S. Labor Law Through a Latin American Method (Oxford University Press, 2019) (with Sergio Gamonal C.). He has a book contract with the University of California Press for his forthcoming monograph, A Baseline of Decency: The Promise and Power of Alt-Labor and Worker Centers. Based on participant observation in Chicago-area worker centers, the book examines how these organizations secure new rights for workers through political strategies that leverage social and symbolic capital, building a new moral economy of the labor market.

His scholarship has appeared in leading journals, including Law & Social Inquiry, University of Chicago Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, University of Chicago Legal Forum, and Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, among numerous other publications spanning the U.S., Europe, and Latin America.

A leader in his field, Professor Rosado Marzán serves on the Executive Committee of the Labor Law Group and the Steering Committee of the Labor Law Research Network. He is an active participant in the Law and Society Association and the American Sociological Association. Before joining Iowa Law, he was a professor at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he co-directed the Institute for Law and the Workplace.

Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Professor Rosado Marzán is a proud member of the Colegio de Abogados y Abogadas de Puerto Rico. He has held visiting appointments at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Stockholm University, the American Bar Foundation, and the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law. Earlier in his career, he practiced labor law in New York City, representing unions and employees.

Professor Rosado Marzán shares time between Iowa City and Chicago. His personal website can be found here.

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Research and Teaching: 

• Contracts
• Employment Discrimination
• Employment Law
• International and Comparative Labor and Employment Law
• Labor Law
• Low Wage Workers
• Moral Economies
• Social Capital
• Social Movements
• Socio-legal methods

Affiliations: 

• American Bar Association, Section of Labor and Employment Law
• American Sociological Association
• Colegio de Abogados y Abogadas de Puerto Rico
• International Sociological Association
• Labor Law Research Network
• Law and Society Association
• Labor Law Group
• Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics (SASE)
• The University of Iowa Labor Center (liaison)
• Affiliated Faculty - University of Iowa Dept. of Sociology and Criminology