Labor and Employment Law News - November 1997

Labor and the Law:

News and Current Events from the IRRA Section on Labor and Employment Law (LEL)

Section Nominations

The Section bylaws provide for a nominating committee composed of the Past-Chair and two Board members to present a slate of candidates for election as officers and members of the Board to the annual business meeting which will take place Sunday, January 4, 1998, 8:00 am at the IRRA annual meeting.
Any additional nominations supported by at least five Section members may be submitted to the Section Secretary, Maria Ontiveros, in advance of the business meeting. Maria Ontiveros may be reached at email address montiveros@condor.depaul.edu or surface mail address: Golden Gate University School of Law, 536 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105.
The nominating committee has proposed the following slate of candidates:

Chairperson

John Raudabaugh, Esq., Matzkov, Salzman, Madoff & Gunn

Vice Chairperson/ Chairperson Elect

Maria O'Brien Hylton, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law

Secretary

Robert Thornton, Professor of Economics, Lehigh University

Board Members:

Lisa Bingham, Professor of Public & Environmental Affairs, Indiana University

Kenneth Dau-Schmidt, Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law

Charles Jeszek, Assistant Director, Education and Employment Issues, U.S. General Accounting Office

Kathy Krieger, Esq., James & Hoffman / General Counsel's Office, AFL-CIO

Nancy Sedmak, Managing Editor, BNA Labor Relations Reporter

Calvin Sharpe, Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University Law School

Perry Zirkel, Professor of Education, Lehigh University

Past Chairperson

Ellen Dannin, Professor of Law, California Western School of Law

If you would like to propose a panel for the January 1999 IRRA Annual Meeting, your proposal must be in to the National Offices December 1, 1997. The Labor and Employment Law Section would especially like to encourage panels that incorporate or focus on legal issues and their interrelationship with collective bargaining, economics, and other issues. If you need information on how to draft a panel proposal, contact the National IRRA office for sample proposals: kbhutchi@facstaff.wisc.edu.

Maria Hylton, Boston University Law School

Maria Hylton has just finished a new casebook entitled "Cases and Materials on Employee Benefits" (coauthored with Lorraine Schmall of Northern Illinois) which West plans to bring out this coming Spring. She is also working on an article about the recent Microsoft and Intermodal cases, and another on the use of race by insurers to manage risk.

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Maria Hylton
Boston University Law School
765 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
mhylton@acs.bu.edu
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Robert Aalberts, et alia, A Proposed Model Policy for Managing Telecommunications-Related Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, 48 Lab. L.J. 616 (1997)

John Anderson, Student Survey: Employment, 74 Denv. U. L. Rev. 455 (1997)

Robin Applebaum, Note: The "Undifferentiating Libido": A Need for Federal Legislation to Prohibit Sexual Harassment by a Bisexual Sexual Harasser, 14 Hofstra Lab. L.J. 601 (1997)
James Atleson, Confronting Judicial Values: Rewriting the Law of Work in a Common Law System, 45 Buff. L. Rev. 435 (1997)

Stephen Befort, Pre-employment Screening and Investigation: Navigating Between a Rock and a Hard Place, 14 Hofstra Lab. L.J. 365 (1997)

Janice Bellace, The European Works Council Directive: Transnational Information and Consultation in the European Union, 18 Comp. Lab. L. & Pol'y J. 325 (1997)

Donna Bennett, Effectively Managing the Human Side of Change, 89 Law Lib. J. 335 (1997)

Josh Bernstein, The Efforts of Texas Courts to Disable Disability Law in Texas, 2 Tex. F. on Civ. Lib. & Civ. Rts. 43 (1995)

Lisa Bingham & Jonathon Anderson, Upstream Effects From Mediation of Workplace Disputes: Some Preliminary Evidence From the USPS, 48 Lab. L.J. 601 (1997)

Claudia Brewster, Note: Restoring Childhood: Saving the World's Children From Toiling in Textile Sweatshops, 16 J.L. & Com. 191 (1997)

Louise Brock, Overcoming Collective Action Problems: Enforcement of Workers Rights, 30 U. Mich. J.L. Rev. 781 (1997)

Denise Bryant, Note: You Make the Call! Brown v. Pro Football, Inc., 4 Vill. Sports & Ent. L.J. 87 (1997)

Elizabeth Chambliss, Title VII as a Displacement of Conflict, 6 Temp. Pol. & Civ. Rts L. Rev. 1 (1996)

Joseph Covelli, Note: At the Intersection of Antitrust and Labor Law, Supreme Court's Decision Gives Management the Green Light ‹ Brown v. Pro Football, Inc., 27 Stetson L. Rev. 257 (1997)

Breen Creighton, Combating Child Labour: The Role of International Labour Standards, 18 Comp. Lab. L. & Pol'y J. 362 (1997)

Robert Donahue, Note: Racial Diversity as a Compelling Governmental Interest, 30 Ind. L. Rev. 523 (1997)

Elissa Dorfsman, Note: Toward an Age of Enlightment in Cases of Age Discrimination, 6 Temp.. Pol. & Civ. Rts. L. Rev. 173 (1997)

Frederick Englehart, Note: Withered Giants: Mexican and U.S. Organized Labor and the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation, 29 Case W. Res. J. Int'l L. 321 (1997)

Wayne Estes & Andrea Joseph, Missing Analytical Link in Supreme Court's "Salting" Decision Disturbs Balance of Union-Management Rights, 30 Ind. L. Rev. 445 (1997)

Kelly Evans, Developments in Indiana Employment Law, 30 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (1997)

Mary Ann Farkas & Kathryn Rand, Female Correctional Officers and Prison Privacy, 80 Marq. L. Rev. 95 (1997)

David Feller, Fender Bender or Train Wreck? The Collision Between Statutory Protection of Individual Rights and the Judicial Revision of the Federal Arbitration Act, 41 St. Louis U. L.J. 561 (1997)

Barbara Fick, The Case for Maintaining and Encouraging the Use of Voluntary Afirmative Action in Private Sector Employment, 11 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol'y 159 (1997)

Clive Gilson, Ellen Dannin & Terry Wagar, Collective Bargaining Theory and the Doctrine of Implementation of Final Offers Collide, 48 Lab. L.J. 587 (1997)

Katherine Flynn, Note: Same-Sex Sexual Harassment: Sex, Gender, and the Definition of Sexual Harassment Under Title VII, 13 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 1099 (1997)

Walter Gershenfeld, Pre-employment Dispute Arbitration Agreement: Yes, No and Maybe (1996)

Julius Getman, Explaining the Fall of the Labor Movement, 41 St. Louis U. L.J. 575 (1997)

David Gregory, Dorothy Day's Lessons for the Transformation of Work, 14 Hofstra Lab. L.J. 57 (1997)

Joseph Grodin, Arbitration of Employment Discrimination Claims: Doctrine and Policy in te Wake of Gilmer, 14 Hofstra Lab. L.J. 1 (1996)

Maria Guerra & Anna Torriente, The NAALC and the Labor Laws of Mexico and the United States, 14 Ariz. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 503 (1997)

Michael Harper, Multiemployer Bargaining, Antitrust Law, and Team Sports: The Contingent Choice of a Broad Exemption, 38 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1663 (1997).

Thomas Hustoles & Michelle Smith, Employment Discrimination, 23 J.C. & U. L. 403 (1997)

Anthony Jacob, Comment: Expanding Judicial Review to Encourage Employers and Employees to Enter the Arbitration Arena, 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1099 (1997)

George James, Note: Don't Touch That Grapefruit! Prohibiting the Encouragement by U.S. Unions of Secondary Boycotts Abroad, 26 Ga. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 433 (1977)
Burton Kainen & Shel Myers, Turning Off the Power on Employees: Using Employees Surreptitious Tape-Recordings and E-Mail Intrusions in Pursuit of Employer Rights, 27 Stetson L. Rev. 91 (1997)

Diane Klein, Comment: Pregnancy Discrimination in Show Business, 26 J.L. & Educ. 49 (1997)

Christine Littleton, Book Review: Whose Law is This Anyway? 95 Mich. L. Rev. (1997)

JuLyn McCarty & Michael Levy, Focusing Title VII: The Supreme Court Continues the Battle Against Intentional Discrimination, 14 Hofstra Lab. L.J. 177 (1996)

Deborah Malamud, Book Review: Values, Symbols, and Facts in the Affirmative Action Debate, 95 Mich. L. Rev. 1761 (1997)

Catherine Maraist, An Analysis of the Subjective Perception Test Required by Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc., 57 La. L. Rev. 1343 (1997)

Amy Mathews, Comment: The Sexual Harassment Revolution: Employer Liability for Third Party Sexual Harassment, 65 UMKC L. Rev. 977 (1997)

Maria Medina, The Criminalization of Immigration Law: Employer Sanctions and Marriage Fraud, 5 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 669 (1997)

Barry Meek, Note: Policy ‹ Not Ambiguity ‹ Drives the Supreme Court's Decision to Broaden Title VII Retaliation Coverage, 31 U. Reich. L. Rev. 473 (1997)

Michael Nachman, Note: Antitrust Law ‹ The Nonstatutory Labor Exemptions From Antitrust Liability ‹ Brown v. Pro Football, Inc., 27 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1094 (1997)

Jennifer O'Connor, Statistics in Corporate Downsizing Cases: Unfulfilled Promise for Plaintiffs, 48 Lab. L.J. 627 (1997)

Judy Pippin & Daniel Foote, Recent Cases in Worker's Compensation Law, 30 Ind. L. Rev. 1389 (1997)

Christopher Pledger, Note: The Fifth Circuit's Approach to Pretext Evidence in Employment Discrimination, 57 La. L. Rev. 1393 (1997)

Jennifer Russell, Stuck at the Bottom : Race, Work, and the American Dream, 3 African-Am. L. & Pol'y Rep. 325 (1997)

Daniel Sanpietro, Note: "Gradually Triumphing over Ignorance" Rhode Island's Treatment of Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Workplace, 30 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 439 (1997)

Linda Star, Injured on the Job: Using Alternative Dispute Resolution to Improve Workers' Compensation in Minnesota, 18 Hamline J. Pub. L. & Pol'y 487 (1997)

Symposium: Labor Loopholes: Has Collective Bargaining Become Professional Sports' Fatal Attraction? 4 Vill. Sports & Ent. L.J. 1 (1997)

Symposium: The Aging American Workforce: Thirty Years Under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 31 U. Rich. L. Rev. 579 (1997)

Julia Tag & Hon. Theodore McMillian, Eighth Circuit Employment Discrimination Law: Hicks and Its Impact on Summary Judgment, 41 St. Louis U. L.J. 519 (1997)

Diana Vellos, Note: Immigrant Latina Domestic Workers and Sexual Harassment, 5 Am. U. J. Gender & L. 407 (1997)

Andrew Walsh, Note: Employment Discrimination: The "Foreign Laws" Exception to the ADEA ‹ When a Collective Bargaining Agreement Equals a Law, 19 W. New Eng. L. Rev. 447 (1997)

To include your news related to legal issues and developments affecting labor and employment, contact Ellen Dannin (ejd@cwsl.edu) or California Western School of Law, 225 Cedar Street, San Diego, CA 92101 or (619) 525-1449 or fax: (619) 696-9999.

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