The Labor Law Group
Kathleen Farrell “Carpenter’s Mural”*
The Labor Law Group had its origins in a compelling call for the development of better books and materials for the instruction of law students on labor law by Professor Willard Wirtz at the 1946 meeting of the Association of American Law Schools. In response to Wirtz’s address, approximately forty labor law professors and practitioners met in Ann Arbor in 1947 to discuss the problem and begin work on a book. With the publication of their first book in 1953these same academics and practitionersformed the Labor Law Group as a non-profit trust dedicated to the development of materials for the preparation of law students for the practice of labor and employment law. The “Group process” for developing books consists of: Group meetings among members and practitioners to plan and assign projects, the writing and editing of the project by the assigned members, editing of the project by the Group’s Executive Committee, and publication of the project with all royalties returned to the Group to fund future meetings and projects. The Group currently has two major projects in production and six books published with Thomson/West and Foundation Press.
* Artwork by Kathleen Farrell,
Current Projects
The Group currently has two projects in production. Both will be published in 2008 by West/Thomson.
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Labor Law in the Contemporary Workplace, by Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Martin H. Malin, Roberto Corrada, Christopher Cameron and Catherine Fisk
This book introduces students to the exciting problems of labor law practice in the contemporary workplace and prepares them to succeed in that practice. Particular attention is paid to the problems of worker organization and collective bargaining in the global economy and the importance of federal, state public sector and international law to contemporary labor practice. Chapters of the book include: Labor Law in the Contemporary Workplace, Who is an Employee and Who is an Employer, What is a Labor Union, Establishing the Bargaining Relationship, Life Under Collective Bargaining, Citizen Unions and Ending the Bargaining Relationship. The book will include a supplement to aid professors in developing educational simulations concerning organizing and collective bargaining.
International Labor Law: Cases and Materials on Workers’ Rights in the Global Economy,by Lance Compa,James Atleson, Calvin W. Sharpe, Kerry Rittich and Marley Weiss
This book gives students a detailed introduction to the architecture and substance of international law relating to labor rights. The book examines the trans-border application of law to labor questions through various unilateral, bilateral and international mechanisms including extra-territorial applications, treaties such as NAFTA, and international labor standards under the GATT, WTO and OECD. Chapters of the book include: An Introduction to International Labor Law, The Architecture of International Trade and Labor Institutions, Labor Rights and International Human Rights, Public Actors and Labor Rights, Private Actors and Labor Rights, Migrant Workers, Women and Child Labor.
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The Labor Law Group
Executive Committee
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt (Chair)
Indiana University–Bloomington
Lance Compa
CornellUniversity
Laura J. Cooper
University of Minnesota
Marion G. Crain (Secretary)
University of North Carolina
Catherine Fisk
DukeUniversity
Martin H. Malin
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent
Dennis Nolan
University of South Carolina
Active Members
Steven D. Anderman (U. of Essex, England), James Atleson (SUNY-Buffalo), Dianne Avery (SUNY-Buffalo), Richard A. Bales (N. Kentucky), Robert Belton (Vanderbilt), Dr. Roger Blanpain (Inst. voor Arbeidsrecht, Belgium), Christopher D.R. Cameron (Southwestern), Robert Corrada (Denver), Robert N. Covington (Vanderbilt), Cynthia Estlund (NYU), Matthew Finkin (Illinois), Joel W. Friedman (Tulane),Rafael Gely (Cincinnati), Ann Hodges (Richmond), Alan Hyde (Rutgers), Brian A. Langille (Toronto), Pauline T. Kim (Wash. U.), Thomas Kohler (Boston College) Deborah Malamud (NYU), Mordehai Mironi (Haifa, Israel), Robert B. Moberly (Arkansas), Dennis R. Nolan (South Carolina), Maria L. Ontiveros (U. of S.F.), Kerry Rittich (Toronto), Calvin W. Sharpe (Case Western), Joseph E. Slater(Toledo), Peggie R. Smith (Iowa), Susan Stabile (St. Thomas), Katherine V. W. Stone (UCLA), Lea S. VanderVelde (Iowa), Marley Weiss (Maryland), Michael Wishnie (Yale)
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Books in Print
Over the Years the Group’s collaborative efforts have yielded many successful books published by West and Foundation including:
Employment Discrimination Law: Cases and Materials on Equality in the Workplace,by Robert Belton, Dianne Avery, Maria L. Ontiveros and Roberto L. Corrada (7th ed. 2004);
Legal Protection for the Individual Employee, by Matthew W. Finkin, Alvin L. Goldman, Clyde W. Summers and Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt (3rd ed 2002);
Labor and Employment Law, by Robert J. Rabin, Eileen Silverstein, George Schatzki and Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, (3rd ed. 2002);
Public Sector Employment,by Joseph R. Grodin, June M. Weisberger and Martin H. Malin (2004);
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Resolution in the Workplace,by Laura J. Cooper, Dennis R. Nolan and Richard A. Bales (2nd ed. 2005); and
Labor Law Stories,edited by Laura J. Cooper and Catherine L. Fisk (2005).