Law Roundtable

Marcy Karin (ASU) and Katie Onachila have just posted on SSRN their article (American U. LEL Forum, 2012) The Military's Workplace Flexibility Framework. Here's the abstract: The return of combat troops from Iraq provides a valuable catalyst to take stock...

d Under the U.S. Supreme Court's separability doctrine, it's not enough to argue that a contract containing an arbitration clause is unconscionable or was procurred by fraud or duress. To have the arbitration clause found unenforceable, the allegation of fraud...

On Monday, February 13, Rick Garnett (Notre Dame) and our own Paul Secunda will debate the recent Hosanna-Tabor decision and the ministerial exception at Loyola University Chicago Law School as part of its Law and Religion program. The debate will...

Friend of the blog Marcy Karin (Arizona State) writes to let us know that the Department of Labor has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Implement Statutory Amendments to the Family and Medical Leave Act...

Chicago-Kent's Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal has just published the papers presented at last year's (2011) AALS Labor Relations and Employment Law Program. As many of you will remember, the panel focused on the particularly timely topic of Julius...

Lauren Khouri, Senior Content Editor of the American University Labor & Employment Law Forum writes to tell us that the Forum is issuing a paper call. The paper call is attached here. Here are som details of the paper call:...

. . The American Journal of Comparative Law vol. 60 #1 (2012) . . Gráinne de Búrca, The Trajectories of European and American Antidiscrimination Law - Introduction to the Special Issue on Antidiscrimination Law in Europe and North America, p....

The Seventh Circuit issued an opinion last week applying Wal-Mart v. Dukes in a class action under the Fair Labor Standards and Illinois Minimum Wage Acts. In Ross v. RBS Citizens, the district court had certified two classes: 1. all...

OK, so it's a bit early to be predicting Supreme Court cert., but if I were a privacy advocate, I'd be pushing hard on this case as a possible vehicle for the Court. The reason are the facts: mainly that...

Ariana R. Levinson, Workplace Privacy and Monitoring: The Quest for Balanced Interests, 59 Cleveland St. L. Rev. 377 (2011). Monica Teixeira de Sousa, The State of Our Unions: How President Obama's Education Reforms Threaten the Working Class, 50 Louisville L....