Well, I spoke too soon about West Virginia adopting a workplace captive audience bill. The BNA's Daily Labor Report (subscription required) reports today: West Virginia's 2008 legislature was expected to adjourn March 8 without adopting a measure (H.B. 4132) that...

Congratulations to Zak Kramer (Arkansas-Little Rock) who has just accepted a lateral offer from Penn State, the Dickinson School of Law. Zak will be located at the University Park campus starting in the Fall. Zak joined UALR in 2006. He...

Articles Terry Smith (photo above), Speaking Against Norms: Public Discourse and the Economy of Racialization in the Workplace, 57 Am. U. L. Rev. 523 (2008). Comments & Notes Lisa Hansen, A Comprehensive Framework for Accommodating Nursing Mothers in the Workplace,...

Congratulations to Scott Van Nice, Benjamin Lewis, Marisa Palmieri (on brief), and Lawrence Rosenthal (coach) for winning the 2008 Wagner Labor & Employment Moot Court Competition at New York Law School. Scott Van Nice received the best oral advocate award...

Paul M. Secunda, Towards the Viability of State-Based Legislation to Address Workplace Captive Audience Meetings in the United States (183). Michael Selmi, The Work-Family Conflict: An Essay on Employers, Men, and Responsibility (135). Samuel Estreicher & Kristina Yost, Measuring the...

Paul M. Secunda, Towards the Viability of State-Based Legislation to Address Workplace Captive Audience Meetings in the United States (183). David J. Doorey, Harry and the Steelworker (or Teaching Labor Law to Non-Law Students) (63). Jennifer Dillard & Joel F....

. V. For the second year in a row, team NKU Chase will meet team Michigan State in the final round of the Wagner National Labor & Employment Moot Court Competition at New York Law School. Congratulations to all competitors...

Leilani O. Baumanis & Robert W. McGee, The Economic, Cultural, and Ethical Effects of International Outsourcing (72). Shae McCrystal, Smothering the Right to Strike: Work Choices and Industrial Action (31). Heike Schweitzer, Competition Law and Public Policy: Reconsidering an Uneasy...

Richard L. Kaplan, Top Ten Myths of Social Security (230). Zvi Bodie, Doriana Ruffino, & Jonathan Treussard, Contingent Claims Analysis and Life-Cycle Finance (163). Edward A. Zelinsky, Golden Gate Restaurant Association: Employer Mandates and ERISA Preemption in the Ninth Circuit...

Here's a writing opportunity for your students. Linda H. Edwards at Mercer sends out this notice: It’s time to start thinking about inviting your students to compete for the Milani Award. As you know, Mercer and the ABA host an...

Wendy Parker has posted on SSRN her empirical study of school teacher re-segregation, Desegregating Teachers. Here's the abstract: Our public schools are more segregated than is commonly recognized. Through an original empirical study of 157 school districts, this Article uncovers...

In what is becoming increasing prevalent in modern labor disputes, Cintas has filed a RICO suit against UNITE HERE, Teamsters, and Change To Win in the Southern District of New York. The complaint alleges that the unions, in their attempt...

Henry Drummonds (Lewis & Clark), an expert in the area of NLRA preemption, has this legal analysis of the forthcoming Supreme Court oral argument in the NLRA Preemption case of Chamber of Commerce v. Brown in the February 2008 issue...

Best of luck to students and coaches competing in the Wagner National Labor & Employment Law Moot Court Competition!!! The competition begins today and runs through this Sunday. The final round will be webcast live on Sunday here. rb

Harry Hutchison (George Mason) has just posted on SSRN his article (forthcoming Virginia L. Rev.) The Market for Union Representation: An Information Deficit or Rational Behavior?. Here's the abstract: In his forthcoming Virginia Law Review article, Information and the Market...