It addresses the strike rights of employees in essential services in the United States of America. Unlike at least most European countries, U.S. laws do not define ‘essential services’ for the purpose of strike rights, and generally such laws do not follow the rules the International Labour...

For almost two decades, a sexual predator groomed and abused hundreds of young, female athletes. All the while, he held an esteemed position as the national team doctor for USA Gymnastics, the national governing body for the sport of U.S. gymnastics, and served on the faculty at Michigan State...

The problem of determining who is an “employee” under various protective statutes is foundational to the practice of labor and employment law. Any failures of individual bargaining in the employment relationship can only be remedied through collective bargaining or worker protective...

The International Labor Organization (ILO) monitors compliance with Conventions through two mechanisms: the Committee on Freedom of Association (CFA) and the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR). While there is a significant amount of attention and...

Labour datafication – the accelerating quantification of working life encompassing data-use that extracts additional value from workers – is increasingly recognised as a dimension of the future of work. This article proposes a notion of ‘labour/data justice’ to capture both the...

For the past seventy years, intellectual property law’s right of publicity has allowed for celebrities to monetize their names, images and likenesses for commercial gain. However, until recently, college athletes remained excluded from the endorsement marketplace based on the National...

The EEOC Online Video Mediation program represents the future forum for many types of mediation. It is preferred by all parties and mediators, is more efficient, more flexible, and increases access to justice in a variety of ways. We provide a large database of participant feedback supporting...

The NCAA’s NIL policy left a great deal of grey area for schools and conferences to fill in. In this space, collectives have emerged to fill the financial role that booster groups were prohibited from fulfilling, and while NCAA policy still prohibits pay-for-play schemes, collectives have...

Whistleblowing has an important role to play in the functioning and evolution of democratic society.This paper identifies objectives for whistleblowing law, which have the overarching objective of serving the public interest. It then sets out potential statutory reforms to UK whistleblowing law...

The racial justice protests that engulfed the country after seeing a video of the appalling killing of a Black male, George Floyd, by a Minnesota police officer in 2020 has led to a tremendous number of questions about dealing with racial issues in policing. Similar concerns arose a little more...