Over the past year or so, a conventional wisdom has developed about the status of the legal job market. This conventional wisdom has at least three components: (1) Recent graduates are getting law jobs at distressingly low levels. (2) The legal job market is undergoing a profound structural...

This paper comes from a February 2012 Symposium, "The Role of ADR Mechanisms in Public Sector Labor Disputes: What Is at Stake, Where We Can Improve & How We Can Learn from the Private Sector." It discusses the history of an important form of alternative dispute resolution: the use of what is...

This symposium piece was written around the time that Ohio voters were deciding whether or not to reject (in a voter referendum) SB-5, a bill greatly limiting the rights of public-sector unions in Ohio. The article argues that SB-5 was a flawed and misguided law, enacted for partisan purposes....

Fair Work Australia is the Commonwealth Government’s proposed ‘one-stop shop’ for employment relations matters. An important feature of FWA is its unfair dismissal jurisdiction, which is supposedly designed to deliver a simpler, faster and less costly process by restricting legal...

In Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. NLRB, 535 U.S. 137 (2002), the Supreme Court ruled that the National Labor Relations Board could not order backpay for an unlawful alien whose employer fired him for supporting a union. While the majority reasoned that the Immigration Reform and Control Act...

Standard economic analysis holds that labor market rigidities are harmful for job creation and typically increase unemployment. But many orthodox reforms of the labor market have proved difficult to implement because of political opposition. For these reasons it is important to explain why we...

Since the 1970s English employment law has recognized a duty not to destroy mutual trust and confidence in the employment relationship, and has developed more general duties of good faith and fair dealing at work. Australian employment contract law, on the other hand, has been slow to articulate...

The European Union was has been bult over more than six decades, during which each and very one of us has continued to build our founding fathers’ European dream, so beautifully summarized by R. Schuman: “Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built...

This Essay responds to an article by Hila Shamir previously published in the UCLA Law Review, in which she suggests that human rights has failed as a framework for addressing human trafficking and that instead a labor model would be more successful. Although her article identifies potentially...

This paper on "Decent work, youth employment and migration in Asia" is the first in-depth and comprehensive study on the situation of youth migration issues in Asia. It discusses migration trends and issues concerning young people in Asia - a region hosting more than 60 per cent of world’s...