Pamela Izvanariu

Pamela Izv膬nariu

Associate Professor of Law and Public Policy
Sacramento
Email Address:
pizvanariu@pacific.edu
Phone Number:
916.644.8990
Dr. Pamela Izv膬nariu joined the faculty at McGeorge School of Law in 2024. As a legal and sociological scholar, Professor Izv膬nariu uses historical, legal, and empirical methodologies to investigate both historical and contemporary questions on law, labor, inequality, and social movements. At one end, her research examines the unrecognized movement lawyering, mobilization, and empirical methods of John P. Davis as he exposed and challenged discriminatory labor and employment law in the early New Deal. At the other, it explores the impact of platform-based companies and emerging platform-based worker law on the lives of workers in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe.
 
Professor Izv膬nariu鈥檚 work has been published in top-tier law review and peer-reviewed journals, including Michigan Journal on Race & Law, Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, and the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
 
Her work as an educator has been recognized by the Kennedy Center, which awarded Professor Izv膬nariu the Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award, a grant that publicly recognizes American teachers by spotlighting their impact on the lives of students.
 
Prior to joining McGeorge, Professor Izv膬nariu served as an Assistant Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Dayton, the Director of Florida International University鈥檚 Research Institute for Social and Economic Policy, and the Director of Research and Development at University of California, Los Angeles鈥� Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.
Education

PhD, Sociology, City University New York, The Graduate Center
LLM in International and Comparative Law and Critical Race Theory, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
JD, Loyola University of Chicago School of Law
BA in English, DePaul University

Teaching Interests
  • Criminal Law
  • Family Law
  • Critical Race Theory
  • Law and Society
  • Labor and Employment Law
Research Focus

Selected Publications

John P. Davis and the Joint Committee, Michigan Journal of Race and Law 29, no. 2 (2025): 217-292.

El trabajo mediante plataformas digitales desde una perspectiva cr铆tica y comparada (Digital Platform Work from a Critical and Comparative Perspective, with Federico Rosenbaum Carli: in Teor铆a cr铆tica del derecho y justicia social en las Am茅ricas (Critical Legal Theory and Social Justice in the Americas), edited by Hugo Rojas Corral et al., (UAH/Ediciones) (2024), pp. 462-489.

, Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy Vol. 30, Issue III (2023). 

Plataformas Digitales y el Derecho del Trabajo: un An谩lisis Comparativo y una Gu铆a para el Futuro, with Federico Rosenbaum Carli, Revista Jur铆dica del Trabajo, Vol. 3 N煤m. 8 (2022)

Lesson from the Nordic model: The US perspective, with Jerome Lieberman, in Sustainable Modernity: The Nordic Model and Beyond, Edited By Nina Witoszek and Atle Midttun, Routledge, 2018

, 66 DePaul L. Rev. (2016)

, with Hector Cordero-Guzman and Victor Narro. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 647, Reconsidering the Urban Disadvantaged: The Role of Systems, Institutions, and Organizations (MAY 2013), pp. 102-123

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