Law360, New York ( November 10, 2015, 12:06 PM EST) -- Cynthia Estlund is the Catherine A. Rein Professor at New York University School of Law, and is a leading scholar of labor and employment law. She has written on workplace regulation and governance, worker voice and procedural fairness, diversity, integration, and affirmative action, and many aspects of collective labor law. Her first book, "Working Together: How Workplace Bonds Strengthen a Diverse Democracy" (Oxford University Press, 2003), explores the implications of cooperation, solidarity and sociability among diverse co-workers for democratic vitality and for labor and employment law. In "Regoverning the Workplace: From Self-Regulation to Co-Regulation" (Yale University Press, 2010), she chronicles the decline of collective bargaining, the rise of employment law and current trends in regulatory practice that suggest a model for better workplace governance. Her next book, "A New Deal for China's Workers?" (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2016), examines China's turbulent labor relations and its evolving labor policies and institutions....