The Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law and the Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security present Paving the High Road: Labor Standards and Procurement Policy in the Obama Era April 23, 2010. mw
The Center for Social Justice and Public Service at Santa Clara University Announces the 2010 Women and the Law Stories Conference, The Power of Women’s Stories ll: Examining Women’s Role in Law and the Legal System. It will take place April 16, 2010. mw
The Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law and the Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security present Paving the High Road: Labor Standards and Procurement Policy in the Obama Era April 23, 2010.
Since the year 2000, federal government contracting for goods and services has more than doubled, to over $526 billion dollars per year. These expenditures create millions of jobs—jobs that are funded with federal tax dollars, but under the control of private employers. However, unlike federal jobs, economic data show that many of these procurement-based jobs pay low wages and offer few or no benefits. Such increases in federally funded private employment raise important questions: How well do existing laws and policies ensure that taxpayer dollars spent on federal contractors create good jobs and raise standards in the broader labor market? How might policymakers develop new laws and policies to encourage the development of good jobs in the federal contractor workforce? What are the legal implications of these tools? Our upcoming symposium brings together top national experts in this area to discuss these and other related questions. kja
The University of Florida Levin College of Law’s 2010 Sports Law Symposium, entitled Discussion: Bargaining Collectively, will take place Jan. 29, 2010. It is presented by the UF Entertainment and Sports Law Society. mw
Equality Diversity and Inclusion Conference 2010 will take place in Vienna July 14-16. This is the third annual EDI conference.
The conference has 15 streams. The call for papers gives information applicable to all. “The call for papers will open in the first week of January, and will close on 1 May, 2010. Final session lists for each stream are due on 15 June 2010.”
The legal stream, organized by Jackie Jones (Bristol Law School) and Todd Brower (Western State University College of Law) has its own call for papers.
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The 11th Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum will take place at Yale June 18-19, 2010. The topics will cover public law and the humanities:
• Administrative Law
• Constitutional Law - historical foundations
• Constitutional Law - theoretical foundations
• Criminal Law and Literature, Critical Legal Studies
• Environmental Law
• Family Law
• Jurisprudence and Philosophy
• Labor Law and Social Welfare Policy
• Law and Humanities (including Law and Gender Studies)
• Public International Law
The deadline for submissions is March 19, 2010. mw
The American Arbitration Association and the Cornell Industrial and Labor Relations School will present a two-day program, “Labor Arbitration in a Time of Economic Crisis: How the Economy will Impact how Cases are Argued by Advocates and Decided by Arbitrators.” The program will take place in Washington, DC on October 22-23, 2009 and in San Francisco on November 9-10, 2009. jv
University of Toledo College of Law
Jessica Knouse (University of Toledo), Restructuring the Labor Market to Democratize the Public Forum.
The Connecticut Law Review’s fall symposium will be “Redefining Work: Exploring the Legal Implications of the Four-Day Work Week.” It will be held at the University of Connecticut School of Law in October 2009. For information, contact symposium co-editors Patrick Murphy (patrick.murphy [at] students.law.uconn.edu) and John Langmaid (jabl [at] lat46north.com).
The Institute for Legal Studies of the University of Wisconsin Law School presents a two-day event, Rejuvenating Streetscapes and Communities: Openair Markets and Agendas for Research, Policy, and Practice, on March 31-April 1, 2009. This event will include lectures by Gregg Kettles, Visiting Professor from Loyola Law School, on “Day Labor Markets and the Public Sphere”, as well as roundtable discussions and webinars on the legal issues surrounding food production and distribution.
The University of San Francisco Law Review presents a symposium, The Evolving Definition of the Immigrant Worker: The Intersection Between Employment, Labor, and Human Rights Law, Feb. 27, 2009.
The University of Baltimore School of Law hosts its first annual sports law symposium, From Rookie to Retirement: The NFL Universe in the New Economy, Feb. 26, 2009.
Stanford Law School presents International Labor Standards, Rights and Beyond, on August 14th-15th, 2009 This conference will focus on the development of international labor standards and rights and the use of foreign law by national court systems. The range of topics will include transnational labor citizenship, country-specific labor programs
linking trade and labor rights, and the role of the World Trade Organization and the International Labor Organization.
The conference will provide a forum in which to examine freedom of association, the right to strike under the aforementioned organization policies, and the impact of the ILO upon regional trade agreements and national policies. There will be extensive discussion of private codes of conduct established by corporations and negotiated by NGOs. The conference will end with a specific focus on labor standards in the United States and Asia.
Featured speakers include Honorable Donald Johnston, former Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Judge Rosemary Barkett of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit;Professor Harry Arthurs of Osgoode Hall Law School; Professor Robert Flanagan of Stanford Graduate School of Business; Professor Risa Lieberwitz of Cornell University; and Dan Henkle, Senior Vice President of Social Responsibility at Gap, Inc.
Call for Papers: “Emerging Trends in Employment Law”
The Rutgers Law Record seeks scholarly articles on Emerging Trends in Employment Law to be included in its first issue in its new on-line symposium format. See submissions page for article requirements.
Please submit all articles and questions to lawrecordarticles [at] gmail.com prior to January 5, 2009.
Update (Jan. 6): The editors are extending the deadline to Jan. 30, 2009.
Brian Bix (Minnesota Law), Pluralism and Decentralization in Marriage Regulation
Alison Morantz (Stanford Law), Rethinking the Great Compromise: What Happens When Large Companies Opt out of Workers’ Compensation?
Randall Thomas (Vanderbilt Law)
David Bowker, Unwise Counsel in the Wake of 9/11: How Bad Legal Advice and the Avoidance of Process Led to Unlawful Conduct in the War on Terrorism
Northwestern Law and Political Economy
Nancy Scherer (Wellesley Poli Sci), Does Descriptive Race Representation Enhance Institutional Legitimacy? The Case of the U.S. Courts
Trina Jones (UC Irvine Law), Political Accountability and Expertise in Administrative Law: Lessons from the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Margaret Lemos (Cardozo Law), Judicial vs. Agency Administrative Interpritation of Title VII
Harvard Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics
Mike Scherer (Harvard Public Policy), Markets and Uncertainty in Pharmaceutical Development
Douglas Branson (Pitt Law) & Kenneth Lehn (Pitt Business), Markets in Crisis-Perspectives from Business and Law
Lilly Ledbetter (& Deborah Brake, Moderator), Gender Discrimination, the Supreme Court, and an Agenda for Equal Pay: A Conversation with Lilly Ledbetter
The Yale Journal of Law and Feminism at the Yale Law School presents a symposium celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, and the twentieth anniversary of the Journal, on Friday, November 7-Saturday, November 8, 2008.
The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo Law School, SUNY, presents James Atleson, Values and Assumptions in American Labor Law: A 25th Anniversary Retrospective Conference Sept. 19, 2008.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of Jim Atleson’s book, widely considered to be one of the most important contributions to labor law scholarship in the late twentieth century. Participants will examine the impact and influence of the book, from the vantage point of different disciplines and provide the opportunity to generate new scholarship.
No fee to attend; however, registration is required due to limited space. Please respond by Friday, September 12, 2008.
Stanford Law School hosts International Labor Standards, Rights and Beyond, Nov. 14-15, 2008.
A planning committee requests proposals for the AALS mid-year labor and employment workshop, Harnessing The Interdisciplinary Nature of Work Law. The workshop will be June 10-12, 2009. The deadline for proposals is Nov. 1, 2009. Jump to full post
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