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Author Meets Reader - After The Standard Contract Of Employment: Innovations In Regulatory Design, Thomas Kohler May 2013

Author Meets Reader - After The Standard Contract Of Employment: Innovations In Regulatory Design, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

Panel on the book Re-thinking Workplace Regulation: Beyond the Standard Contract of Employment by Harry William Arthurs and Katherine V.W. Stone.


Participant, Sixth Annual Conference On Economics And Catholic Social Thought, Thomas Kohler Apr 2013

Participant, Sixth Annual Conference On Economics And Catholic Social Thought, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

No abstract provided.


Participant, Pacem In Terris: After Fifty Years, Thomas Kohler Apr 2013

Participant, Pacem In Terris: After Fifty Years, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

No abstract provided.


Gewerkschaftsrechte In Den U.S.A, Thomas Kohler Feb 2013

Gewerkschaftsrechte In Den U.S.A, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

No abstract provided.


Gewerkschaftsrechte In Den U.S.A, Thomas Kohler Feb 2013

Gewerkschaftsrechte In Den U.S.A, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

This lecture addressed the allowable limits of employer co-operation in union organization. Issues surrounding this theme have been of special concern to German unions and large German employers with “transplant” facilities in the U.S. German unions have put considerable pressure on German employers to co-operate with and to extend recognition to employee representatives in the American operations. At least some German employers also have a strong interest in adopting German-style representation structures in their workplaces in the U.S. The lecture addressed the topic in comparative perspective, and also spoke to current political and legal trends.


Faculty Seminar On The Papal Encyclical, Pacem In Terris, Thomas Kohler Jan 2013

Faculty Seminar On The Papal Encyclical, Pacem In Terris, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

A seminar on the Papal Encyclical Pacem in Terris at the Lumen Christi Institute.


What Does It Mean To Be Conservative?: A Perspective From Catholic Social Thought, Thomas Kohler Jan 2013

What Does It Mean To Be Conservative?: A Perspective From Catholic Social Thought, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

A presentation given at the University of Chicago Law School.


Standing Faculty Lecture, Harvard University Trade Union Program, Thomas Kohler Dec 2012

Standing Faculty Lecture, Harvard University Trade Union Program, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

No abstract provided.


Hobbes, Locke And The Mystery Of Friendship, Thomas Kohler Jan 2012

Hobbes, Locke And The Mystery Of Friendship, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

A lecture given to the Boston College Perspectives Program.


Public Unions And The State Of The Labor Movement, Thomas Kohler Jan 2012

Public Unions And The State Of The Labor Movement, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

This presentation considered public unions and the state of the labor movement in light of Catholic social doctrine, democratic theory, distributive justice, and legal and social trends.


Member, Executive Committee For The Program On Catholic Social Though, Thomas Kohler Dec 2011

Member, Executive Committee For The Program On Catholic Social Though, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

In August 2012 Professor Kohler was invited to join the Executive Committee for the Program on Catholic Social Thought sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute at the University of Chicago.


Presentation On Unions And Mediating Institutions In Catholic Social Doctrine, Thomas Kohler Dec 2011

Presentation On Unions And Mediating Institutions In Catholic Social Doctrine, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

A presentation at the Union League Club on unions and mediating institutions in Catholic social doctrine.


Hugues-Felicite-Robert De Lamennais (1782-1854), Thomas Kohler Dec 2011

Hugues-Felicite-Robert De Lamennais (1782-1854), Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

Encyclopedia entry for the theologian and social theorist, Lamennais.


Voices At Work: Legal Effects On Organization, Representation And Negotiation, Thomas Kohler Jun 2011

Voices At Work: Legal Effects On Organization, Representation And Negotiation, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

The Inaugural Conference for a 4-year comparative law project to investigate intersection between law and employee voice in industrialized common law countries. One of 5 American scholars; project involving leading scholars from the common law countries. Two-day conference, largely round table discussions


Moving Viewpoints: Solidarity In Modern Context, Thomas Kohler Jun 2011

Moving Viewpoints: Solidarity In Modern Context, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

Taking theological, social, economic and legal principle of Solidarity, first developed in wake of French Revolution, in modern setting


The Fragile Relevance Of Laborem Exercens, Thomas Kohler Dec 2008

The Fragile Relevance Of Laborem Exercens, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

No abstract provided.


Restatement - Technique And Tradition In The United States, Thomas Kohler Dec 2007

Restatement - Technique And Tradition In The United States, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

This paper considers the meaning and development in a historical perspective of what Americans mean by labour law. The author highlights the fact that employment law in the United States consists of a patchwork of state regulation with a variegated federal overlay. He also discusses the development of the restatement tradition in the United States and examines the course and the current status of the Restatement of Employment Law project promoted by the American Law Institute (ALI), taking account of the fact that the character of employment has changed radically in the past two decades, and has yet to reach …


A Rock On Which One Can Build: Friendship, Solidarity, And The Notion Of Authority, Thomas Kohler Dec 2006

A Rock On Which One Can Build: Friendship, Solidarity, And The Notion Of Authority, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

No abstract provided.


The Relevance Of Laborem Exercens For Workers, Thomas Kohler Aug 2006

The Relevance Of Laborem Exercens For Workers, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

No abstract provided.


Participant, Labor Law Group Biennial Meeting, Thomas Kohler May 2006

Participant, Labor Law Group Biennial Meeting, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

No abstract provided.


Participant And Commentator, Study Group On A Restatement Of European Labour Law, Thomas Kohler Apr 2006

Participant And Commentator, Study Group On A Restatement Of European Labour Law, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

No abstract provided.


The Notion Of Solidarity And The Secret History Of American Labor Law, Thomas Kohler Jan 2005

The Notion Of Solidarity And The Secret History Of American Labor Law, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

No abstract provided.


What’S Wrong With An International Labor Market?, Thomas Kohler Nov 2004

What’S Wrong With An International Labor Market?, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

No abstract provided.


Comparative Advantages? The Protection Of The Employment Bond In German And American Law, Thomas Kohler Dec 2002

Comparative Advantages? The Protection Of The Employment Bond In German And American Law, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

No abstract provided.


Employee Representation, The Notion Of Solidarity And The Secret History Of American Labor Law, Thomas Kohler Dec 2002

Employee Representation, The Notion Of Solidarity And The Secret History Of American Labor Law, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

No abstract provided.


Major-League-Baseball-Streik 1994-1995, Thomas Kohler Sep 2001

Major-League-Baseball-Streik 1994-1995, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

No abstract provided.


Article Reviewed: "Kündigungsschutz In Deutschland Und Den Usa", Thomas Kohler Mar 2000

Article Reviewed: "Kündigungsschutz In Deutschland Und Den Usa", Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

No abstract provided.


Kündigungsschutz In Deutschland Und Den Usa, Thomas Kohler, Michael Kittner Mar 2000

Kündigungsschutz In Deutschland Und Den Usa, Thomas Kohler, Michael Kittner

Thomas C. Kohler

No abstract provided.


Betriebliche Interessenvertretung In Den Vereinigten Staaten: Ein Überblick, Thomas Kohler Oct 1998

Betriebliche Interessenvertretung In Den Vereinigten Staaten: Ein Überblick, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

No abstract provided.


Do We Own Ourselves?, Thomas Kohler Dec 1997

Do We Own Ourselves?, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

No abstract provided.