Sabine Tsuruda
78 Queen's Park
Education
PhD, Philosophy, UCLAJD, UCLA School of LawMA, Philosophy, Stanford UniversityBA, Stanford UniversityOverview
Sabine Tsuruda is an Assistant Professor and the Canada Research Chair in Work Law (Tier 2). Professor Tsuruda researches and teaches in work law, contract law, and legal theory. Her research focuses on workers’ expressive and associational rights, and the relationship between contract law and social equality. Her work has appeared in journals such as University of Toronto Law Journal, Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Legal Theory, and Cornell Law Review. Her work has also appeared in anthologies such as The Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law (Oxford University Press) and Working as Equals (Oxford University Press).
Prior to joining the Faculty of Law, Professor Tsuruda was an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University and a Predoctoral Fellow in Law and Philosophy at the UCLA School of Law. She graduated from the Joint JD/PhD Program in Law and Philosophy at UCLA, where she studied as a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow and served as a Senior Editor of the UCLA Law Review. She also holds a BA and MA from Stanford University.
Areas of Interest
- Contract Law
- Law of Work
- Legal Theory
- Philosophical Approaches to Law
- Private Law
Teaching
Fall Session
Winter Session
Selected Publications
Religious Exemptions and Associational Freedom in Employment, in Discrimination by/against Religion (Cécile Laborde, Micah Schwartzman & Nelson Tebbe, eds., Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
Race, Unconscionability, and Contractual Equality, 60 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 159 (2025)
Substantive Equality and Its Remedial Consequences, 73.S2 U. Toronto L. J. 189 (2023)
Good Faith in Employment, 24 Theoretical Inquiries L. 206 (2023)
A Cooperative Paradigm of Employment, in Working as Equals (Julian Jonker & Grant Rozeboom, eds., 2023)
Disentangling Religion and Public Reason: An Alternative to the Ministerial Exception, 106 Cornell L. Rev. 101 (2021)
Working as Equal Moral Agents, 26 Legal Theory 305 (2020)
Volunteer Work, Inclusivity, and Social Equality, in Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law (Hugh Collins, Gillian Lester & Virginia Mantouvalou eds., Oxford University Press, 2018)
The Moral Burdens of Temporary Farmwork, in The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics (Anne Barnhill, Mark Budolfson & Tyler Doggett eds., Oxford University Press, 2018)
Contract, Power, and the Value of Donative Promises, 69 S.C. L. Rev. 2 (2017)