Miriam Cherry

Professor Miriam Cherry’s scholarship is interdisciplinary and focuses on the intersection of technology and globalization with business, contract, and employment law topics. In her recent work, Professor Cherry analyzes crowd funding, markets for corporate social responsibility, virtual work, and social entrepreneurship. Professor Cherry’s articles will appear or have appeared in the Northwestern Law Review, Minnesota Law Review,Washington Law Review, Illinois Law Review, Georgia Law Review, Alabama Law Review, Maryland Law Review, and the Tulane Law Review, among others.

Legal and technical challenges of starting worker coops in the on-demand digital economy
Miriam Cherry’s analysis centers on the legal and technical challenges of starting worker coops in the on-demand digital economy. In order to do so, she draws on her work assisting traditional worker cooperatives and worker-owned limited liability companies (LLCs) organize and run their businesses. Worker coops require more technical legal and financial assistance than traditional startup corporations because of their relatively “unusual” business structures, governance models, and collective action problems. How might platform coops be able to reduce these various transaction costs? She will suggest (perhaps subversively) that technology may provide the means to help overcome these challenges.