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Real Work: Domestic Workers' Exclusion From The Protections Of Labor Laws, Lisa Diaz-Ordaz Sep 2010

Real Work: Domestic Workers' Exclusion From The Protections Of Labor Laws, Lisa Diaz-Ordaz

Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.


Pedagogy And Critique: Values And Assumptions In The Law School Classroom, Richard Michael Fischl Jun 2010

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.


The Opeb Tsunami: Riding The Wave Of Public Sector Postemployment Health Benefits, Jenna Amato Moran May 2010

The Opeb Tsunami: Riding The Wave Of Public Sector Postemployment Health Benefits, Jenna Amato Moran

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Causation Standard In Federal Employment Law: Gross V. Fbl Financial Services, Inc., And The Unfulfilled Promise Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1991, Michael C. Harper Jan 2010

The Causation Standard In Federal Employment Law: Gross V. Fbl Financial Services, Inc., And The Unfulfilled Promise Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1991, Michael C. Harper

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Revitalizing Union Democracy: Labor Law, Bureaucracy, And Workplace Association, Matthew Dimick Jan 2010

Revitalizing Union Democracy: Labor Law, Bureaucracy, And Workplace Association, Matthew Dimick

Journal Articles

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, …


What's Left Of Solidarity? Reflections On Law, Race, And Labor History, Martha R. Mahoney Dec 2009

What's Left Of Solidarity? Reflections On Law, Race, And Labor History, Martha R. Mahoney

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Independent Contractor Or Employee? Misclassification Of Workers And Its Effect On The State, Jenna Amato Moran Sep 2009

Independent Contractor Or Employee? Misclassification Of Workers And Its Effect On The State, Jenna Amato Moran

Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Suffrage And The Terms Of Labor, Robert J. Steinfeld Aug 2009

Suffrage And The Terms Of Labor, Robert J. Steinfeld

Contributions to Books

Published as Chapter 9 in Human Capital and Institutions: A Long Run View, David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis & Kenneth L. Sokoloff, eds.

Great books often harbor deep tensions, which are one source of their enduring power. Time on the Cross by Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman is a good example (Fogel and Engerman 1974). On the one hand, Time on the Cross argued that the economic science of Cliometrics was indispensable for a proper understanding of the past. Human beings have always been primarily motivated by the desire for gain, and to understand their behavior it is essential to …


A Historical Overview Of The Fair Labor Standards Act, Pamela Newell Jul 2009

A Historical Overview Of The Fair Labor Standards Act, Pamela Newell

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.


Still Unjaded: Jim Atleson's Twenty-First Century Turn To International Labor Law, Lance Compa May 2009

Still Unjaded: Jim Atleson's Twenty-First Century Turn To International Labor Law, Lance Compa

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


James B. Atleson And The World Of Labor Law Scholarship, Dianne Avery, Alfred S. Konefsky May 2009

James B. Atleson And The World Of Labor Law Scholarship, Dianne Avery, Alfred S. Konefsky

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Values And Assumptions Of The Bush Nlrb: Trumping Workers' Rights, Wilma B. Liebman May 2009

Values And Assumptions Of The Bush Nlrb: Trumping Workers' Rights, Wilma B. Liebman

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Value Of Values And Assumptions To A Practicing Lawyer, Virginia A. Seitz May 2009

The Value Of Values And Assumptions To A Practicing Lawyer, Virginia A. Seitz

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Some Personal Observations About Values And Assumptions: What Can Jim Teach Wilma And The Board?, Robert J. Rabin May 2009

Some Personal Observations About Values And Assumptions: What Can Jim Teach Wilma And The Board?, Robert J. Rabin

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Class Conflicts Of Law Ii: Solidarity, Entrepreneurship, And The Deep Agenda Of The Obama Nlrb, James Gray Pope May 2009

Class Conflicts Of Law Ii: Solidarity, Entrepreneurship, And The Deep Agenda Of The Obama Nlrb, James Gray Pope

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Unexpected Convergence: Values, Assumptions, And The Right To Strike In Public And Private Sectors, 1945-2005, Joseph A. Mccartin May 2009

Unexpected Convergence: Values, Assumptions, And The Right To Strike In Public And Private Sectors, 1945-2005, Joseph A. Mccartin

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Hollowing Out Of Corporate Canada: Implications For Transnational Labor Law, Policy And Practice, Harry Arthurs May 2009

The Hollowing Out Of Corporate Canada: Implications For Transnational Labor Law, Policy And Practice, Harry Arthurs

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Transnationalizing The Values And Assumptions Of American Labor Law, Kerry Rittich May 2009

Transnationalizing The Values And Assumptions Of American Labor Law, Kerry Rittich

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Jamie L. Bronstein's Caught In The Machinery: Workplace Accidents And Injured Workers In Nineteenth-Century Britain, Robert J. Steinfeld Jan 2009

Jamie L. Bronstein's Caught In The Machinery: Workplace Accidents And Injured Workers In Nineteenth-Century Britain, Robert J. Steinfeld

Book Reviews

No abstract provided.


Short Notes On Teaching About The Micro-Politics Of Class, With Examples From Torts And Employment Law Casebooks, Susan Carle, Michelle Lapointe Dec 2008

Short Notes On Teaching About The Micro-Politics Of Class, With Examples From Torts And Employment Law Casebooks, Susan Carle, Michelle Lapointe

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Class Conflicts Of Law I: Unilateral Worker Lawmaking Versus Unilateral Employer Lawmaking In The U.S. Workplace, James Gray Pope Dec 2008

Class Conflicts Of Law I: Unilateral Worker Lawmaking Versus Unilateral Employer Lawmaking In The U.S. Workplace, James Gray Pope

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Of Service Workers, Contracting Out, Joint Employment, Legal Consciousness, And The University Of Miami, Kenneth M. Casebeer Dec 2008

Of Service Workers, Contracting Out, Joint Employment, Legal Consciousness, And The University Of Miami, Kenneth M. Casebeer

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Rethinking "The Plan": Why Erisa Section 502(A)(2) Should Allow Recovery To Individual Defined Contribution Pension Plan Accounts, Regina L. Readling Apr 2008

Rethinking "The Plan": Why Erisa Section 502(A)(2) Should Allow Recovery To Individual Defined Contribution Pension Plan Accounts, Regina L. Readling

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Lesson From The East: International Labor Rights And The U.S.-Cambodia Trade Agreement Of 1999, Michael Hecker Sep 2007

A Lesson From The East: International Labor Rights And The U.S.-Cambodia Trade Agreement Of 1999, Michael Hecker

Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Great American Makeover: The Sexing Up And Dumbing Down Of Women's Work After Jespersen V. Harrah's Operating Company, Inc., Dianne Avery Jan 2007

The Great American Makeover: The Sexing Up And Dumbing Down Of Women's Work After Jespersen V. Harrah's Operating Company, Inc., Dianne Avery

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.


Mark Curthoys' Governments, Labour, And The Law In Mid-Victorian Britain: The Trade Union Legislation Of The 1870s, Robert J. Steinfeld Jan 2007

Mark Curthoys' Governments, Labour, And The Law In Mid-Victorian Britain: The Trade Union Legislation Of The 1870s, Robert J. Steinfeld

Book Reviews

No abstract provided.


Douglas Hay And Paul Craven's Masters, Servants, And Magistrates In Britain And The Empire, 1562–1955, Robert J. Steinfeld Jan 2007

Douglas Hay And Paul Craven's Masters, Servants, And Magistrates In Britain And The Empire, 1562–1955, Robert J. Steinfeld

Book Reviews

No abstract provided.


Branded: Corporate Image, Sexual Stereotyping, And The New Face Of Capitalism, Dianne Avery, Marion Crain Jan 2007

Branded: Corporate Image, Sexual Stereotyping, And The New Face Of Capitalism, Dianne Avery, Marion Crain

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.


The Welding Fume Case And The Preemptive Effect Of Osha's Hazcom Standard On Common Law Failure-To-Warn Claims, Richard C. Ausness May 2006

The Welding Fume Case And The Preemptive Effect Of Osha's Hazcom Standard On Common Law Failure-To-Warn Claims, Richard C. Ausness

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Free Wage Labor And The Suffrage In Nineteenth Century England, Robert J. Steinfeld Jan 2006

Free Wage Labor And The Suffrage In Nineteenth Century England, Robert J. Steinfeld

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.