Hiba Hafiz is a Professor of Law and McHale Faculty Research Scholar. She joined BC Law in 2018, and teaches and writes in labor and employment law, antitrust law, and administrative law. Her work focuses on strengthening workers’ bargaining power and legal solutions to labor market concentration and inequality. She is currently working on two projects. The first, tentatively titled Unfree Labor: The Legal Geography of Work, is under contract with Princeton University Press and explores law’s formative role in shaping geographic inequality and local oligarchy by enabling concentrations of employer power in rural and distressed communities. Her second project focuses on the history of public wage administration in the United States, examining how law contributed to shaping the value (and valuelessness) of socially productive labor over time.
Hafiz has published or has forthcoming articles in the University of Chicago Law Review, Columbia Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Duke Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, and Cardozo Law Review, among other law journals. She has served as an Expert Advisor to the Federal Trade Commission (2022-2023), as a Law and Normative Thinking Fellow at Princeton University (2025-2026), and as a Wertheim Fellow at Harvard Law School (2022). She is an affiliate fellow at Yale University's Thurman Arnold Project and previously served as a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. Her writing has been featured in news and radio outlets, and academic blogs and podcasts, including the New York Times, The Atlantic, WBUR, Law and Political Economy Blog, Washington Center for Equitable Growth’s Competitive Edge series, ProMarket Blog, Competition Policy International’s Antitrust Chronicle, Columbia Law School's Blue Sky Blog, Our Curious Amalgam, and The Sling.
Hafiz clerked for Judge Juan R. Torruella of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Judge José L. Linares of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. After clerking, she practiced law in the Antitrust Practice Group at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll in Washington, D.C., where she represented plaintiffs in antitrust class actions against pharmaceutical companies and employers. Hafiz left practice to become a Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow and lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School
