Selected Lectures

Cambridge University, Fitzwilliam College
Conference Chair Opening Remarks
“Worlds of Work: Employment Dispute Resolution Systems Across the Globe" Symposium Conference of the Center for Labor and Employment Law
July 20, 2011

St. John’s University Center for Labor and Employment Law
Conference Chair Opening Remarks and Introduction of Keynote Speaker (AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, invited)
“The Theology of Work and the Dignity of Workers”    
March 18-19, 2011
 
Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, San Francisco
January, 2011 
 
The George Washington University National Law Center
“The Problematic Status of Unpaid Student Interns,” presented by invitation at the symposium conference "The Uncertain Future of Unpaid Student Internships," Conference "Unpaid Interships:  Uncertain Future"
October 12, 2010

St. John's University Center for Labor and Employment Law
Opening remarks, The 14th Annual Management Lawyer's Colloquium
September 22, 2010

St. John’s University Center for Labor and Employment Law
Introduction, Professor Jack Getman, University of Texas Law School
September 16, 2010 and 
New York City Maryhouse Catholic Worker
September 17, 2010
 
St. John's University Center for Labor and Employment Law
Introduction, Professor Julius Getman, "Restoring the Power of Unions:  It Takes a Movement,"
September 16, 2010

American Bar Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco
August 5-11, 2010

New York University School of Law
Introduction, EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum
63rd Annual Conference on Labor
June 4, 2010

St. John’s University Center for Labor and Employment Law
Introduction, NLRB Chair Wilma Liebman
“The 75th Anniversary of the National Labor Relations Act”
June 2, 2010

Annual Meeting, National Academy of Arbitration, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
May 26-29, 2010

Annual Meeting, American Law Institute, Washington, D.C.
May 16-19, 2010

University College of Law Symposium Conference
Commentator, "The Vanishing Employee,"  "The National Labor Relations Act at 75," Florida International
March 27, 2010

Work Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools
“Supreme Court and Federal Legislative Update”
June 11, 2009
Interviewee, Nick Bunkley, "Next Chief is Nominated for a Troubled Union," N.Y. Times at B3
December 17, 2009

St. John's University School of Law
Opening Remarks, A Conversation with Paul Salvatore regarding Penn Plaza v. Pyett, Labor Relations and Employment Law Society
November 9, 2009

Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome
“Labor and Employment Ramifications of Diocesan Bankruptcies”
March 5, 2008

New York State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section
“Current NLRB Developments”
February 1, 2008

Annual National Convention Keynote Speech
The National Association of Catholic School Teachers
“Labor and Employment Ramifications of Diocesan Bankruptcy”
October 6, 2007

Mount Sinai Medical School
“Workers’ Rights and 9/11 Illnesses”
February 16, 2007
 
DePaul University
“Frederic Ozanam”
September 28, 2006

Villanova University
“Laborem Exercens’ Prescient Critique of Technology”
September 26, 006
 
Queen Mary, University of London
Co-Chair, “Transatlantic Perspectives on ADR” Conference
July 26-28, 2006
 
Association of the Bar of the City of New York
“Ethical Issues in Labor and Employment Arbitration”
June 21, 2006
 
Industrial Relations Research Association
“Military Personnel and Civilian Employment Rights”
Williams Club, New York
May 18, 2006
 
Irish Association of Law Teachers’ Annual Conference
Cork, Ireland
“The Ominous Outsourcing of Irish Jobs”
April 8, 2006
 
Cardozo Law School
“The Future of Labor”
November 15, 2005
 
Association of the Bar of the City of New York
“The 70th Anniversary of the National Labor Relations Act”
May 25, 2005
 
University of St. Thomas
“Frederic Ozanam and Catholic Social Justice”
April 9, 2005
 
Irish Association of Law Teachers’ Annual Conference
Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland
“Comparative Perspectives on Labor and Employment Law”
March 19, 2005
 
Irish Association Law Teachers’ 25th Annual Conference
Derry, Northern Ireland
“Unemployment in Cyberspace”
April 2, 2004
 
Santa Clara Law School
“Contingent Workers”
January 30, 2004
 
Villanova Law School
“Catholic Social Teaching”
October 3, 2003 
 
St. Thomas Law School
“Dorothy Day, Applied”
April 4, 2003
 
Yale Law School
“Teaching Policy Sciences”
October 19, 2002
 
BYU Law School
“Workers’ Rights”
March 27, 2002
 
Ave Maria Law School
“International Debt Relief”
October 26, 2001
 
ABA International Labor Law Committee, Dublin, Ireland
“International ADR”
April 25, 2001
 
Max Planck Institute, Berlin
“International Conventions on Education”
March 30, 2001
 
Georgetown Law Center
"New Directions in Catholic Education"
November 11, 2000
 
Yale Law School
“International Debt Relief”
October 28, 2000
 
University of Notre Dame
“Aquinas, Maritain, and Law”
October 19, 2000
 
University College, Dublin
Co-Chair, International Labor Conference
July 22, 2000
 
Jesuit Curia, Rome
Legal Issues in Catholic Higher Education
June 29, 2000
 
Yale Law School
“International Employment Mediation”
October 23, 1999
 
University College, Dublin
“Federalism and Globalism in Labor and Employment Law”
May 18, 1999
 
Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome
“Catholic Education, Catholic Employment”
February 16, 1999
 
University of Dayton
“Dorothy Day, Workers’ Rights and Catholic Authenticity”
October 29, 1998
 
Marquette University
“Dorothy Day and Labor”
October 11, 1997
 
University College, Dublin
“Employee Rights”
September 6, 1997
 
European University Institute Department of Law
“Fundamental Social Rights and Comparative Labor Policies”
February 20, 1997
 
Yale Law School
“Exploitation of Free Labor”
October 26, 1996
 
Cornell University
“Teaching Labor Law”
September 28, 1996
 
Yale Law School
“Subsidiarity And The Transformation Of Work”
October 28, 1995
 
Yale Law School
“Public Pension And Compensation Systems”
October 29, 1994
 
University of Montana School of Law
“Religious Harassment In The Workplace”
September 30, 1994
 
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York
“National Health Care”
June 1, 1994
 
Yale Law School
“Labor-Community Coalitions”
October 23, 1993
 
University of Illinois College of Law
“Enhancing Retirement Security”
April 23, 1993
 
Baylor University
“Government Regulation Of Religion Through Labor and Employment
Discrimination Laws”
April 14, 1992
 
Harvard Law School
“Collective Bargaining In The Post War Era”
April 12, 1992
 
Stetson University College of Law
“Government (De) Regulation Of Religious Institutional Employers Through Labor
And Employment Discrimination Laws”
January 31, 1992
 
Harvard Law School
“Linguistic Heterogeneity In The Workplace”
April 24, 1991
 
Capital University Law School
“Actualizing What Ought To Be”
October 3, 1990
 
Fordham University Graduate School of Education
“Labor Theory And Collective Bargaining”
January 20, 1990
 
University of Notre Dame Law School
“The Role Of Religion In The Secular Workplace”
April 1, 1989
 
Yale Law School
“First Generation Professionals In Legal Academia”
October 24, 1988
 
New York City Police Academy
“The Constitution And The Bill Of Rights”
July 22, 1986