Professor Dubal’s research focuses primarily on law and social change in the context of work law. Her dissertation, a three year ethnography, examines the work lives and worker collectivities of taxi drivers in San Francisco. Her research suggests that conventional wisdom on lawyering on behalf of low-income independent contractors needs to be re-examined and re-configured based on the desires and everyday realities of these workers. An earlier version of this blog post was published on the author’s blog.