César F. Rosado Marzán
Professor Rosado Marzán is an internationally acclaimed socio-legal scholar and award-winning author whose work bridges theory and practice. At Iowa Law, he teaches Contracts as well as a variety of labor and employment law courses and seminars. He has earned the Iowa Law Collegiate Teaching Award, a distinction granted by students in recognition of his exceptional teaching.
He is coauthor of Labor Law in the Contemporary Workplace: Cases and Materials (4th ed., West) and the award-winning Principled Labor Law: U.S. Labor Law Through a Latin American Method (Oxford, 2019), which received the Simón Bolívar Prize for Best Juridical Work. His current socio-legal book project explores the moral economy of alt-labor, revealing how U.S. worker centers—despite limited resources—are reshaping workers’ rights. His articles have been featured in leading publications, including Law & Social Inquiry, University of Chicago Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, University of Chicago Legal Forum, Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, and many other contributions spanning the U.S., Europe, and Latin America.
Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Professor Rosado Marzán is a proud member of the Bar Association of Puerto Rico (Colegio de Abogados y Abogadas de Puerto Rico). He serves on the Executive Committee of the Labor Law Group and the Steering Committee of the Labor Law Research Network, and 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. He has held visiting appointments at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Stockholm University, the American Bar Foundation, and the Oñati 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.
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
