Assistant Professor

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.

Education
PhD, Philosophy, UCLA
JD, UCLA School of Law
MA, Philosophy, Stanford University
BA, Stanford University
Academic appointments
Assistant Professor, Queen’s University
Predoctoral Fellow in Law and Philosophy, UCLA School of Law
Awards and distinctions
Selection as the “New Voice in Legal Theory,” Analytic Legal Philosophy Conference (blind competition)
Order of the Coif, UCLA School of Law
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Distinction, University of California, Los Angeles
Selected publications

Resistance and Recognition in Contract, 60 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming)

Religious Exemptions and Associational Freedom in Employment, in Discrimination by/against Religion (Cécile Laborde, Micah Schwartzman & Nelson Tebbe, eds., Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

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)