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Labor Arbitration
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Labor Law Prof Blog
“The Embodiment of Academic Freedom”: A Tribute to Bill Murphy
One of the great figures of labor law, Bill Murphy of UNC Law, died this past September at the age of 87. Although Bill was a well-known arbitrator and former…
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ABA Scholar-in-Residence
The American Bar Association ADR in Labor & Employment Law Committee (a Committee of the Section on Labor & Employment Law) is soliciting applications for its 2007-08 scholar-in-residence program. The…
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Top-5 Labor SSRN Downloads
Mitchell H. Rubinstein (photo above), Assignment of Labor Arbiration (52).Anne Marie Lofaso, Approaching Coal Mine Safety from a Comparative Law and Interdisciplinary Perspective (49).Ronald McCallum, In Defense of Labour Law…
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Gould on Modern Labor Arbitration
Not just out, but just came across this interesting piece by former NLRB Chairman William Gould (Stanford) in the Emory Law Journal entitled: Kissing Cousins?: The Federal Arbitration Act and…
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Rubinstein on Assignment of Labor Arbitration
Mitchell Rubinstein has just posted on SSRN his new article (St. John's L. Rev.) Assignment of Labor Arbitration. Here's the abstract: An individual employee is not a party tothe collective…
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Sixth Circuit Adopts New Test for Reviewing Labor Arbitration Awards
The Sixth Circuit Friday released an en banc decision abandoning its four-part test for determining whether a labor arbitration award "fails to draw its essence from the [collective bargaining] agreement." …
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En Banc Sixth Circuit Disallows “Serious Error” as Ground for Vacating Labor Arbitration Award
Labor union keeps arbitrationaward despite arbitrator's"serious error". So long as an arbitrator "plainly was 'arguably construing' the contract", the full Sixth Circuit held today, courts must uphold his award even…
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LeRoy on New Evidence on the Finality of Labor Arbitration Awards
Michael LeRoy (Illinois) has posted on the bepress Legal Repository his forthcoming article entitled: As the Enterprise Wheel Turns: New Evidence on the Finality of Labor Arbitration Awards.From the abstract:Our…
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Arbitrator Reinstates Klan State Trooper
This case really highlights the difference between a just cause labor arbitration case and a civil rights action for deprivation of First Amendment rights in federal court.A racist Nebraska state…
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Recently-Published Scholarship
Michael Selmi (left), Was the Disparate Impact Theory a Mistake?, 53 UCLA L. Rev. 701 (2006).Richard A. Bales, The Employment Due Process Protocol at Ten: Twenty Unresolved Issues, and a…