Note: A Mock Funeral for a First Amendment Double Standard: Containing Coercion in Secondary Labor Boycotts
By Dan Ganin. Full text here. The secondary boycott provision of the National Labor Relations Act prohibits labor unions from using coercive tactics to induce “neutral” parties to sever economic ties with others. Although the judiciary has failed to clearly delineate the concept of coercion, secondary labor picketing has been deemed categorically coercive and subject…
Continue ReadingPreemption and Civic Democracy in the Battle over Wal-Mart
By Catherine L. Fisk & Michael M. Oswalt. Full text here.
Continue ReadingHow Wal-Mart Fights Unions
By Nelson Lichtenstein. Full text here.
Continue ReadingLabor Law After Legalization
By Michael J. Wishnie. Full text here.
Continue ReadingRemedies for Undocumented Noncitizens in the Workplace: Using International Law to Narrow the Holding of Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. NLRB
By David Weissbrodt. Full text here.
Continue ReadingThe Publicization of Home-Based Care Work in State Labor Law
By Peggie R. Smith. Full text here.
Continue ReadingCounting What Matters: Privatization, People with Disabilities, and the Cost of Low-Wage Work
By Ellen Dannin. Full text here.
Continue ReadingRepresenting Low-Wage Workers in the Absence of a Class: The Peculiar Case of Section 16 of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Underenforcement of Minimum Labor Standards
By Craig Becker & Paul Strauss. Full text here.
Continue ReadingMinimum Wages and Low-Wage Workers: How Well Does Reality Match the Rhetoric?
By David Neumark & William Wascher. Full text here.
Continue ReadingNote: To Fix or Not to Fix: Copyright's Fixation Requirement and the Rights of Theoretical Collaborators
By Carrie Ryan Gallia. Full text here. Despite its typical responsiveness to technological advances, copyright law has not kept pace with the emergence of the director as the primary player in American theater, leaving the contributions of this essential, creative artist without recognition or protection. Because work must be original, authored, and fixed to warrant…
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