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Schedule Registration Housing |
| Saturday, January 8, 2000 8:30-10:15 a.m. |
Virginia Suite A
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Lobby Level |
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Section on Labor Relations and Employment Law |
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| Maria L. Ontiveros, Golden Gate University, Chair |
| The Value(s) of Labor and Employment Law |
| Moderator: | |
| Markita D. Cooper, Golden Gate University | |
| Speakers: | |
| Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Indiana University-Bloomington
Irasema Garza, Secretary, National Administrative Office, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C. James A. Gross, Professor of Labor and Industrial Relations, School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York |
| As we enter a new century, this program will give us the opportunity to discuss the core values within labor and employment law, as well as its value to the law school curriculum. The interdisciplinary panel features Professor Gross from Cornell's Industrial & Labor Relations School and Secretary Garza of the National Administrative Office, which administers NAFTA's labor side-agreement. Professor Gross, the award-winning author of Broken Promises: The Subversion of American Labor Relations Policy, 1946-1994, will bring a historical and humanistic perspective, while Secretary Garza will discuss the issue of values from a comparative and international perspective, drawing on her experience with the NAACL. Tentatively, the panel will also include a labor/community organizer who will discuss the values which resonate with communities of color and a professor who will focus on the values which underlie an economic approach to our subjects, with an emphasis on employment law. Our moderator, Professor Cooper, teaches employment law and torts and is on the Executive Committee for the Section on Teaching Methods. Following relatively brief comments from the speakers on the core values of labor and employment law, she will lead a directed question and answer discussion with the panelists to further explore that topic and to link that topic to pedagogical and curricular issues. Materials relating to the directed question and answer discussion will be available at the Section breakfast, immediately preceding the panel discussion. |