In her book Working Together: How Workplace Bonds Strengthen a Diverse Democracy (Oxford University Press 2003), she argued that the workplace is a site of both comparatively successful integration and intense cooperation and sociability, and explored the implications for democratic theory and for labor and employment law.
She has over twenty publications in peer-reviewed journals, including the leading law reviews.
She then studied government programs for working parents in Sweden as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow.
Circuit, Estlund reported on the prosecution of human rights abuses in Argentina as a J. Roderick MacArthur Fellow.
Her husband Samuel Issacharoff is also a professor at New York University School of Law.