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Pedagogy And Critique: Values And Assumptions In The Law School Classroom, Richard Michael Fischl
Pedagogy And Critique: Values And Assumptions In The Law School Classroom, Richard Michael Fischl
The Docket
Michael Fischl offers further reflections on the importance of Emeritus Professor James Atleson's scholarship, in response to our Symposium on James Atleson's Values and Assumptions in American Labor Law: A Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Retrospective, 57 Buff. L. Rev. 629.
Revitalizing Union Democracy: Labor Law, Bureaucracy, And Workplace Association, Matthew Dimick
Revitalizing Union Democracy: Labor Law, Bureaucracy, And Workplace Association, Matthew Dimick
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Do core doctrines of labor-relations law obstruct the internal democratic governance of labor unions in the United States? Union democracy is likely an essential precondition for the broader strategic and organizational changes unions must undertake in order to recruit new union members — the labor movement’s cardinal priority. Yet according to widely accepted wisdom, the weakness of democracy within labor unions is the unavoidable outcome of an “iron law of oligarchy” that operates in all such membership-based organizations. This Article challenges this conventional thinking and argues that the triumph of oligarchy over democracy in US labor unions is not inevitable, …