Draft Symposium Agenda

The National Labor Relations Act at 75:  Its Legacy and its Future


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October 28-29, 2010

Thursday afternoon, October 28

Welcome Remarks:

Frederick M. Lawrence, Dean and Robert Kramer Research Professor of Law, The George Washington School of Law

Wilma B. Liebman, National Labor Relations Board, Chairman

Historical Legacy of the National Labor Relations Act: Its Impact on the American Society and Economy:

Moderator:     TBA

James Augustine Gross, Professor, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Dorothy Sue Cobble, Professor of Labor studies and History, Department of Labor and Employment Relations, Department of History, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Richard B. Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics, Harvard University; Faculty Director, Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School; Director, National Bureau of Economic Research/ Sloan Science Engineering Workforce Projects; Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics.

Michael Wachter, William B. Johnson Professor of Law and Economics; Co-Director, Institute for Law & Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Legacy of the NLRA: The Board and the Courts

The Hon. Laurence H. Silberman, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Distinguished Visitor from the Judiciary, Georgetown University Law Center

Legacy of the NLRA: On the Law

Moderator:     TBA


Carrie Menkel-Meadow, A.B. Chettle, Jr. Professor of Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure, Georgetown University Law Center; Founding Faculty Member, School of Law, University of California-Irvine

Charlie Craver, Freda H. Alverson Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School

5:30 – 7:00 pm Reception

Evening Reception

Friday, October 29

Further Reflections on the Legacy of the NLRA on the Law:

Michael Gottesman, Professor of Law, Georgetown University

The Legacy of the NLRA:  Its Resistance to Legislative Change and A Study in Contrast --Australian Labour Law:

Moderator:   TBA

James J. Brudney, Newton D. Baker-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law

Professor Ron McCallum, Professor of Industrial Law, The University of Sydney Law School 

The Future:  How to Adapt the NLRA to a Radically Changed Social, Political and Economic Environment:

Moderator:     TBA

Thomas Kochan, George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management, Professor of Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management

Ruth Milkman, Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Noah D. Zatz, Professor of Law, UCLA Law School

Lunch with Keynote speaker (TBA)

The Future: Is there a Better Model for Employee Representation in a Volatile, Hyper-Competitive Economy?:

Moderator:     TBA

Cynthia Estlund, Catherine A. Rein Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

Steve Charnovitz, Associate Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School

Discussion: Point-Counterpoint and Audience:

Samuel Estreicher, Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law; Co-Director Dwight D. Opperman Institute of Judicial Administration; Director, Center for Labor and Employment Law, New York University School of Law

Marion Crain, Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Work and Social Capital, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law