
Professor David Yamada
Professor of Law and Director, New Workplace Institute, Suffolk University Law School
David Yamada is a Professor of Law and Director of the New Workplace Institute at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. A widely recognized authority on the legal, organizational, and human implications of workplace bullying, he has authored leading law review articles on the topic and is the primary drafter of model workplace anti-bullying legislation used as a template for law reform efforts in the U.S. He co-edited, with Dr. Maureen Duffy, a authoritative, multi-author, two-volume treatise, Workplace Bullying and Mobbing in the United States (2018). He has been an affiliated scholar with the Workplace Bullying Institute, founded by Drs. Gary and Ruth Namie, since 1998. David’s Minding the Workplace blog is a popular source of commentary on work, workers, and workplaces, and his insights about employment relations have been frequently sought out by national and local media.
Just because you can’t see the bruises doesn’t mean that your body hasn’t been harmed.
Building a Legal Framework for Workplace Justice
Talking Points
- The distinction between everyday workplace conflicts and targeted, abusive behaviors
- Legal Gaps in Workplace Bullying
- The importance of legal protections
- Corporate Resistance to Anti-Bullying Legislation