Schwab is an expert in
economic analysis of the law and
employment law.[1][2][3][4][5] He has been a member of the Cornell Law School faculty since 1983 and served as the Allan R. Tessler Dean of
Cornell Law School from 2004 to 2014.[4][6][7] Schwab is currently a Reporter for the
American Law Institute’s Restatement of Employment Law[8] and serves as a co-editor for the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.[9] His scholarship is frequently listed among the highest rated in terms of scholarly impact [10] and in 2008 he was named one the nation’s 50 most powerful employment attorneys by the publication Human Resource Executive.[11]
Schwab was born in 1954 in
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he grew up and met his wife, Norma, in grade school. The two married in 1975. They have eight children and six grandchildren, and reside in
Ithaca, New York.
Publications
Books authored
Schwab, Stewart; Willborn, Steven; Burton, John; Lester, Gillian (2012). Employment Law: Cases and Materials. Lexis Law Publishers.
ISBN978-1422490778.
Schwab, Stewart; Estreicher, Samuel (2000). Foundations of Labor and Employment Law. Foundation Press.
ISBN978-1566629928.
Selected scholarly publications
Splitting Logs: An Empirical Perspective on Employment Discrimination Settlements, 96 Cornell Law Review 931 (2011) (with M. Heise)
Employment Discrimination Plaintiffs in Federal Court: From Bad to Worse? 3 Harvard Law & Policy Review 103 (2009)
The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws, 88 Review of Economics & Statistics 211-31 (May 2006) (with D. Autor & J. Donohue),
What Shapes Perceptions of the Federal Court System?, 56 University of Chicago Law Review 501 (Spring 1989) (with T. Eisenberg)