David Yamada is a tenured Professor of Law and Director of the New Workplace Institute at Suffolk University Law School, where he is a globally recognized authority on workplace bullying and psychological abuse. He wrote the first comprehensive law review article on workplace bullying (Georgetown Law Journal, 2000), and his model legislation -- known as the Healthy Workplace Bill has become the template for enacted and proposed workplace anti-bullying laws and ordinances in the U.S.

Professor Yamada also is a leading expert on the intern economy, and his scholarship has significantly informed legal challenges to unpaid internships. His blog, Minding the Workplace, is a popular source of commentary about dignity at work, employment and labor law, workplace psychology, and employee relations. Professor Yamada is a frequent featured speaker at conferences in fields such as employment law and policy, organizational psychology, and labor relations. He is often sought out by the media on these topics, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Chronicle of Higher Education, Bloomberg, Associated Press, National Public Radio, MSNBC, and ProPublica.

His current pro bono service includes the International Society for Therapeutic Jurisprudence (founding board chair), Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (board member), Western Institute for Social Research (board vice chair), and Americans for Democratic Action Education Fund, Inc. (board chair). He is the past chair of the AALS Section on Labor Relations and Employment Law and a former editorial board member of the faculty-edited Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal.

Professor Yamada practiced for six years as a public interest lawyer in New York City before entering legal academe. In recent years he has been honored for his work by Valparaiso University (Alumni Achievement Award), Americans for Democratic Action (Winn Newman Equality Award), and Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (Lifetime Achievement Award), and the International Academy for Law and Mental Health (Bruce Winick Award for contributions to Therapeutic Jurisprudence). His degrees include a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. from Valparaiso University.

Professor Yamada's current courses at Suffolk University Law School include:
~Employment Law
~Employment Discrimination
~Law and Psychology Lab

Minding the Workplace blog: https://newworkplace.wordpress.com
Social Science Research Network publications page: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=506047