ALI Council
Elected Member

Anton G. Hajjar

Chevy Chase, MD
Education
Fordham University, BA
Tulane University School of Law, JD

Anton G. Hajjar was formerly general counsel of the American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO. He was of counsel at Murphy Anderson PLLC in Washington, DC, and was a principal of O'Donnell, Schwartz & Anderson, PC, representing unions and union workers. Mr. Hajjar received his undergraduate degree from Fordham University and his law degree from Tulane University Law School. Following law school, he clerked for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and worked for seven years at the National Labor Relations Board before entering private practice. The Senate confirmed him to be a Governor of the U.S. Postal Service on May 28. 2021, until  December 9, 2024. He was chair of the Compensation and Governance Committee of the Board of Governors and is a member of the Board’s Operations Committee and Election Mail Committee.

Elected to the ALI in May 2002, Mr. Hajjar was elected to the Council in May 2010. He was an Adviser to the now completed Restatement Third, Employment Law and the joint project with the European Law Institute of Principles for a Data Economy. He serves on the Members Consultative Groups of the Restatement of the Law, Consumer Contracts, Restatement of the Law, Corporate Governance, Principles of the Law, High-Volume Civil Adjudication and Restatement of the Law Fourth, Property. He was a member of the MCG of the now completed Restatement of the Law, Charitable Nonprofit Organizations.

He has been a frequent presenter on employment and labor law topics, and has been and continues to be an advisor and pro bono attorney in numerous employment discrimination cases.

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Areas of Expertise
Employment Discrimination (Employment Law)
Litigation
Administrative Law
Arbitration (Alternative Dispute Resolution-ADR)
Employment Law
Labor Law (Employment Law)