Adjunct Law Prof Blog

NIU Law Review Symposium: Eavesdropping, Wiretapping and Privacy

The Northern Illinois Law Review will host a symposium titled "Eavesdropping and Wiretapping in Illinois" on April 19, 2013.  Here is the announcement, which includes links for times, location, registration and agenda, among other things.

Craig Estlinbaum

Charleston Law Review: "Thirty Years with the Endorsement Test"

Charleston Law Review is hosting a symposium on April 15, 2013, titled "In Search of A 'Grand Unified Theory': Thirty Years with the Endorsement Test."  Scheduled speakers include The Honorable Sandra Day O'Connor, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (ret.), who is slated to deliver the keynote address.  For more, including a conference agenda and registration information, click here.

Craig Estlinbaum

Northwestern: 100 Years Under the Income Tax

Northwestern Law Review and the Northwestern tax program have combined to host a symposium titled "100 Years Under the Income Tax" on April 5, 2013, at the Chicago campus.  Here is the program and a registration link.

Craig Estlinbaum

Thurgood Marshall Conference: The Constitutionalization of Immigration Law

The Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston will host a two-day conference April 4-5 titled "The Constitutionalization of Immigration Law" (brochure here).  I am honored to be included among the speakers at this conference.  I will be on the panel for "Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel in Texas Court Proceedings - Padilla and 11.07 Habeas Corpus," which will be presented Thursday afternoon.  I will be joining Naomi Jiyoung Bang, Senior Attorney at FosterQuan LLP in Houston (and also a Clinical and Adjunct Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law) and Franklin Bynum, from the Harris County Public Defender's Office, on this particular panel.  Topics covered in the conference are:

• Pleanary  Power - Supreme Court Deference to the Executive and Legislative Branches:  Brief History of the Chinese Exclusion Cases;
• Fifth Circuit Practice Pointers - A View from the Bench;
• Washington Insiders View on Immigration Reform, DACA, Stateside Waivers, and Path to Citizenship;
• Fifth Amendment - Due Process Rights to Counsel in Immigration Proceedings: Matter of Lazada, Compean I & II, MAM and Circuit Court Decisions;
• Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel in Texas Court Proceedings - Padilla and 11.07 Habeas Corpus;
• Sixth Amendment Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel;
• Fourth Amendment Search and Seizure in Immigration Proceedings;
• Restitution and Compensation for Victims of Human Trafficking in the United States; and
• Round Table Clinicians Luncheon - Infusing Best Practices in Immigration Law School Clinics.

Thank you to Professor Fernando Colon-Navarro, Director of LLM and Immigration Development at Thurgood Marshall for this invitation.  I am honored to participate in the comprehensive and timely conference.

Craig Estlinbaum

SMU Law: Federal Circuit and Patent Law Symposium

The SMU Dedmon School of Law will host its 10th Annual Symposium on Emerging Intellectual Property Issues on March 22, 2013, with a presentation titled "The Federal Circuit and Patent Law."  The one day symposium includes four panel discussions - The Federal Circuit's Stewardship of Patent Law: A View from the Bench; Institutional Roles: The Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court; Allies or Competitors: The Federal Circuit and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; and Innovation, Disruptive Technologies and the Federal Circuit.  Bernard J. Knight, Jr., General Counsel, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is scheduled to deliver the luncheon and keynote address.  A complete brochure for the symposium is here.

Craig Estlinbaum

Texas Tech Law Review to Host Juveniles & Criminal Law Conference

The Texas Tech Law Review will host its 7th Annual Criminal Law Symposium: Juveniles & Criminal Law, on April 5, 2013, at the Mark and Becky Lanier Auditorium on the law school campus.  The program as presented on the law review website:

Keynote Address:  Franklin Zimring (Boalt)

Panel 1:  When are (should) juveniles (be) tried as juveniles and when as adults?

• Ellen Podgor, Moderator (Stetson)
• Carissa Hessick (Arizona State)
• Janes HJoeffel (Tulane)
• David Pimentel (Ohio Northern)
• Christopher Slobogin (Vanderbilt)

Lexis/Nexis Luncheon Speaker:  Arnold Loewry (Texas Tech)

Panel 2:  Do (should) juveniles have more, less, the same, or different rights?

• Richard McAdams, Moderator (Chicago)
• Ronald Allen (Northwestern)
• Tamar Birckhead (North Carolina)
• Patrick Metze (Texas Tech)
• David Tanenhaus (UNLV)

Panel 3:  What is (should be) the scope and limitations of juvenile punishment?

• Joshua Dressler, Moderator (Ohio State)
• Joseph Kennedy (North Carolina)
• Michael Perlin (New York)
• Kevin Saunders (Michigan State)
• The Honorable Irene Sullivan (State of Florida)

More Information.

Craig Estlinbaum

Texas Wesleyan Law Review to Host an Energy Law Symposium

Texas Wesleyan Law Review is hosting its Fifth Annual Energy Law Symposium at the law school March 21-22.  Major topics include Litigation Issues in Energy Law, Regulatory and Environmental Issues in Energy Law, International Perspectives on Energy Law and Oil & Gas Practitioner Issues.  This looks like a comprehensive energy law survey with 24 individual speakers and 3 roundtables on the agenda.  The program agenda is here, registration information is here, and the registration form is here.

Craig Estlinbaum

Effective Assistance in Plea Negotiations Symposium at Duquesne

Professor Doug Berman at Sentencing Law & Policy commented this morning on what promises to be a very timely and important symposium upcoming at Duquesne Law School. The syposium is called "Plea Bargaining After Lafler and Frye" and will be held February 28-March 1 at Duquesne in Pittsburgh in cooperation with the Criminal Justice Section, White Collar Crimes Committee, Mid-Atlantic Region.  The symposium schedule is here.

Craig Estlinbaum

St. John's Law School Conference - Labor Relations and the Future of Professional Baseball

On November 18, 2011, St. John's Law School Labor and Employment Society is putting on an interesting conference at the law school in Queens. It is on labor relations in professional baseball. It is co-sponsored by a number of important organizations and the conference includes several well known speakers. From the conference web site:

 

November 18, 2011 8:30 AM - 2:30 PM

Law School | 8000 Utopia Parkway | Queens, NY

Labor Relations and the Future of Professional Baseball

Baseball is America’s pastime. Professional baseball has long provided a dynamic playing field for labor relations professionals who address a range of issues from contract negotiations to the sweep of labor management relationships and conflict, to the development of free agency and the maturation of the collective bargaining process. This conference brings together leading experts in the field to discuss a range of labor relations topics and their influence on the future of professional baseball.

Date
Friday, November 18, 2011

Time
8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Location
St. John’s School of Law
Belson Moot Court Room, 2nd Floor
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, NY 11439

Host
Center for Labor and Employment Law, St. John’s School of Law

Co-sponsors

• American Arbitration Association
• Catholic Scholars for Worker Justice
• Cornell University ILR School Labor and Employment Law Program
• Dispute Resolution Society, St. John’s School of Law
• Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Society, St. John’s School of Law
• Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition
• Labor Relations and Employment Law Society, St. John’s School of Law
• New York University School of Law Center for Labor and Employment Law
• Seton Hall University Law School
• The Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution, St. John’s School of Law

Keynote Speaker
William B. Gould IV,  Charles A. Beardsley Professor of Law, Emeritus, Stanford Law School; former Chairman, National Labor Relations Board; author, Bargaining with Baseball, Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil

“If Major League Baseball ever awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, it should go to Bill Gould for effectively ending baseball’s nuclear war, the strike of 1994-1995, during his tenure as NLRB chairman.  In his new book, the distinguished law professor has chronicled the game’s history of labor and racial relations from his unique perspective.”
– Joe Castiglione, broadcaster, Boston Red Sox.

Plenary Panel
Moderator: Jack Newhouse ’12, Executive Board, Labor Relations and Employment Law Society

• Ken Belson, Sports Reporter, New York Times
• Ed Blankmeyer, Head Coach, Men’s Varsity Baseball, St. John’s University
• Jeff Fannell ‘96, former counsel, Major League Baseball Players Association; Sports Agent; Adjunct Professor, St. John’s School of Law
• Matt Howes ‘ 12, Executive Board, Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Society (EASL), St. John’s School of Law
• Gene Orza ’73, Associate Counsel and Chief Operating Officer, Major League Baseball Players Association (ret.)
• Ed Randall, Host, Talking Baseball
• Tom Reich, Sports Agent, Reich, Katz & Landis
• Melissa Schneer ’12, President, Labor Relations and Employment Law Society, St. John’s School of Law

Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
The half-day conference qualifies for 2 non-transitional CLE credit hours

For additional information and registration information click here.

Mitchell H. Rubinstein

Great Conference Sponsored By St. John's LS at Cambridge Univ, July 20-22, 2011

If you are free between July 20 and July 22, 2011, St. John's University School of Law is hosting a wonderful conference: Worlds of Work: Employment Dispute Resolution Systems Across The Globe Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, July 20-22, 2011. There is still time to register and to submit papers for publication consideration in the law review. 

A copy of the agenda is available by clicking  Download CAMBRIDGE Conference Agenda -6-14-2011 Registration has been extended and you can register by clicking here. 

I am a member of the Board of St. John's Law School Center for labor and employment law and though I am admittedly biased, I can tell you that I have gone to virtually every one of their conferences in the last 7 years and each one is better than the other. 

The list of speakers include at least two former members of the NLRB, several arbitrators, the Director of the FMCS, several partners from major law firms and several well known labor law professors. 

What is so wonderful about conferences sponsored by the Center of Labor and Employment Law, and this conference in particular, is that it brings together academics with practicing lawyers. The conference is not about theory; rather it is about real life issues facing labor and employment lawyers today. 

Though I will not be able to join you at this conference (I was going to present a paper) due to a personal family emergency, I do hope that you would consider this conference if you have some time.

As an added bonus, registration includes 3 nights in the dorms at Cambridge University. Imagine that. 

Mitchell H. Rubinstein

Conference On The Theology and Dignity of Work This Friday and Sat. at St. John's Law School

This Friday (March 18th) and Saturday (March 19th), there is an important conference at St. John's Law School on the Theology and Dignity of Work. This conference could not be more timely and interesting. The list of speakers is unbelievable and include AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, Edward Cardinal Egan, Archbishop Emeritus, Archdiocese of New York, NLRB Chair Wilma Liebman, UAW President Bob King, Theodore J. St. Antoine, Dean Emeritus, University of Michigan Law School; Past President National Academy of Arbitrators, Sam Estreicher, Professor of Law, NYU, Jack Ahern, President, New York City Central Labor Council as well as many others. 

The full conference agenda is available here. (Registration information can be found at the bottom of conference agenda page).

I am moderating a panel on Friday at 1:30 pm and I hope to see many of you. 

Mitchell H. Rubinstein

 

Symposium on Technology in the Workplace April 27-29

Bill Herbert writes to tell us about the ABA National Symposium on Technology in Labor and Employment Law scheduled for April 27-29, 2011 at New York Unversity School of Law.  Below is a link to the announcement:

 

http://www2.americanbar.org/calendar/ll04271-national-symposium/Pages/default.aspx

The event is presented by the ABA Labor and Employment Section's Technology in the Practice and Workplace Committee, and it is co-sponsored by the Center for Labor and Employment Law at New York University School of Law.

It looks like an interesting event.

Mitchell H. Rubinstein

Conference on Law and the Brain

On March 15, 16 2011 there is a conference on Law and the Brain. A summary of this conference which will be held in New York is as follows:

Advances in neuroscience are providing insight to the inner workings of the human brain and these discoveries are increasingly being used in criminal and civil courts. Learn how these findings are impacting criminality, guilt, deception, mental health, memory, addiction, and other issues. Discover the pitfalls and potential implications of applying neuroscience in the courtroom. 

Join us for this interdisciplinary conference which brings neuroscientists and legal scholars together to discuss how new neuroscientific discoveries are affecting law both now and in the future.

There are several distinguished speakers. Additional information can be found here.

Mitchell H. Rubinstein

St. John's Law School Call For Participation and Announcement of Conferences

Call for Participation The Theology of Work and the Dignity of Workers March 18-19, 2011  St. John's School of Law, Queens, NY Featured Speakers Richard Trumka, President, AFL-CIO John Wilhelm, President, UNITE HERE! To learn more about the March Conference, click here.  Worlds of Work: Employment Dispute Resolution Systems Across the Globe July 20-22, 2011  Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge,  Cambridge, England Featured Speakers Theodore J. St. Antoine  James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus, University of Michigan Law School; Past President, National Academy of Arbitrators William B. Gould IV Charles A. Beardsley Professor of Law, Emeritus, Stanford Law School; Former Chairman, NLRB To learn more about the July Conference, click here. The abstract submission deadline is February 1, 2011. For additional information, contact clel@stjohns.edu or  (718) 990-6653.

 

St. John's Center For Labor And Employment Law-Save The Dates

I am delighted to inform you about the following events that are being sponsored by St. John's Law School, Center for Labor and Employment Law. Labor scholars and practicing labor and employment lawyers may find this information and conferences particularly useful. Click here for a Save the Date Card  Download SJU Save Date Cambridge

1.  February 2, 2011- The Intersections of National Security, Public Safety and Health, Immigration, and Labor and Employment Law (Location St. John's Law School 5:30 pm) 

This looks like a wonderful conference. A Commissioner of Health, a former New York Director of Homeland Security, former federal prosecutors and a sitting federal judge are all confirmed speakers. 

For further click Download SJU National Security 

2. March 18, 19, 2011-The Theology of Work and The Dignity of Workers Conference (Location St. John's Law School)

This conference has a wonderful group of confirmed speakers including the President of the NYS Central Labor Council, NYU Professor Sam Estreicher, UNITE HERE President John Wilhelm and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. Scholarly papers are being solicited for this conference.

For further details click Download SJU Theology of Work call for participation 11 18 2010 

3.July 20, 2011-July 22, 2011-Employment Dispute Resolution Systems Across The Globe (Location Cambridge University, Cambridge England)

This conference looks to be unbelievable. Some of the confirmed speakers include Ted St. Antoine, former President of the National Academy of Arbitrators and Michigan Law Professor, NYU Professor Sam Estreicher, Texas Professor Jack Getman, Prof. Bill Gould, former NLRB Chairperson as well as a host of other attorneys and speakers. Scholarly papers are being solicited for this conference. 

For further details click  Download SJU cambridge program in progress 11 16 2010 (1) 

In the last 7 years, I have gone to most of the conferences sponsored by St. John's Law School, including one that was sponsored in London England. They are simply wonderful. David Gregory the conference director is a wonderful speaker, a good friend and an excellent host. If you want to write a paper, you may have the opportunity for it to be published in the law review or in another scholarly journal. Most importantly, in addition to learning a great deal about the law, these conferences are simply fun. I look forward to see you. 

Mitchell H. Rubinstein

Important Conference On Status of Unpaid Interns. Oct. 12, 2010 GW Law School

On Tuesday Oct. 12, 2010 GW Law School is hosting an important conference on the status of unpaid student interns. The program can be downloaded by clicking Download Regulating Unpaid Internships

The conference will feature several important speakers, including two that I count as friends, David Gregory from St. John's Law School and Samuel Estreicher from NYU School of Law School. Significantly, this is not just an academic conference where legal theory will be presented. Several practing attorneys are speaking and the materials are both recent and practical.

The use and abuse of interns is not a new problem or a new legal issue. However, with the poor economy, more and more students, lawyers and others are working without charge with the hope of landing a job.

This conference should not be missed. I would have posted this earlier, but I just found out about it.

Mitchell H. Rubinstein

St. John's Center For Labor and Employment Events

 

The Center for Labor and Employment Law is pleased to invite you to these engaging and informative September events:

A Reception and Discussion on the Future of Labor Unions in honor of labor law expert Julius G. ("Jack") Getman's new book, Restoring the Power of Unions: It Takes a Movement.

Thursday, September 16, 2010
5:30- 7 p.m.
St. John's Manhattan Campus
101 Murray Street
New York, NY 10007
Cocktail Reception

Welcome
Michael A. Simons
Dean and
John V. Brennan Professor of Law and Ethics
St. John's School of Law

David L. Gregory
Executive Director
The Center for Labor and Employment Law
Dorothy Day Professor of Law
St. John's School of Law

Featured Speaker
Julius G. Getman
Earl E. Sheffield Regents Chair Professor of Law
University of Texas School of Law

Discussants
Frederick D. Braid ‘71
Partner, Holland & Knight, LLP

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

Q & A

Book Signing

Please RSVP online by Wednesday, September 15, 2010.

14th Annual Management Lawyers' Colloquium jointly presented with the Law School's Labor Relations and Employment Law Society

Wednesday, September 22, 2010
5:30 p.m.
The Mattone Family Atrium
St. John's School of Law, Fourth Floor
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, NY 11439

Welcome
Michael A. Simons
Dean and
John V. Brennan Professor of Law and Ethics
St. John's School of Law

David L. Gregory
Executive Director
The Center for Labor and Employment Law
Dorothy Day Professor of Law
St. John's School of Law

Panel Discussion
Frederick Braid '71 (Holland & Knight)
James Clark '94 (Cullen and Dykman)
Philip Davidoff '91 (Ford & Harrison)
Frances Green '87 (Epstein, Becker & Green)
Raymon Mak '83 (Epstein, Becker & Green)
Craig S. Roberts '97 (Jackson Lewis)
Anna Shields '04 (Jackson Lewis)
Evan J. Spelfogel (Epstein, Becker & Green)
Ernest Stolzer '79 (Bond, Schoeneck & King)
Christopher Valentino '00 (Jackson Lewis)

Presentation
Scholarship for Excellence in Labor and Employment Law 
The fifth annual academic merit scholarship award offered by the Jackson Lewis law firm in memory of former partner Alan C. Becker, Esq.

Please RSVP online by Friday, September 17, 2010.

The New York University Center for Labor and Employment Law will present its 63rd Annual Conference on Labor on June 3-4, 2010.

Resolving Labor and Employment Disputes: A Practical Guide

Cosponsored with Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations & St. John's University School of Law

• Program Details
• Registration Information

I go to this conference every year and it is wonderful. The list of speakers this year is unbelievable and CLE credit is available.

Mitchell H. Rubinstein

Center For Labor and Employment Law at St. John's Law School

I am delighted to be part of The Center For Labor And Employment Law at St. John's University School of Law. Download Current bulletin of the center-1

Under the leadership of Professor David L. Gregory and Dean Michael A. Simons, the Center is designed to creatively and dynamically prepare law students as superb labor and employment lawyers. The Center, which was founded almost forty years ago as the labor and employment society, will continue to bring distinguished speakers and leaders to campus and expose students to cutting edge legal issues. Major events planned for 2010-2011 include the following:

1.  NLRB Chair Wilma Liebman will be the keynote speaker at a conference on the 75th Anniv. of the NLRA. That conference will be held on June 2, 2010 at St. John's Manhattan Campus, 101 Murray Street between 6 and 10 pm.

2. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has been invited to be the keynote speaker at a symposium conference on March 19, 2011 at the main campus of the law school.

3. The Center together with Cambridge University, England will sponsor a conference in England on July 17-23, 2011 entitled "Labor and Employment Dispute Resolution: International and Comparative Perspectives"

For additional information contact Professor David Gregory at gregoryd@stjohns.edu

Mitchell H. Rubinstein 

The 2009 National Policy Forum: New Frontiers in Labor and Employment Policy: Ensuring Good Jobs, Fair Treatment, and High Performance in a Turbulent Economy

The 2009 National Policy Forum: New Frontiers in Labor and Employment Policy: Ensuring Good Jobs, Fair Treatment, and High Performance in a Turbulent Economy  will be held June 11-12, 2009, Washington, D.C. at the Cafritz Conference Center, George Washington University Campus, Co-sponsored by BNA and the Department of Management, George Washington University.

Details are here, including the program and reservations.
http://www.lera.uiuc.edu/meetings/npf/NPF2009/index.html

Program Chair: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
Co-chairs:  Thomas Kochan, MIT; Bonnie Summers, Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association; Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO

LERA National Policy Forums are designed to connect theory and practice with policy issues in ways that have impact.  Hosted by George Washington University at the Cafritz Conference Center in Washington D.C. the 2009 Forum theme signals what may be an end to over two decades of gridlock on a broad range of labor and employment policy issues and explores what may be new frontiers in labor and employment policy.

This year's Policy Forum will have a particular focus on policy issues around union organizing, pension and health care benefits, and other issues for which legislative debates are anticipated and where public policy can be informed by scholarly research and practitioner perspectives.   The Forum will also consider state and industry-level challenges in rebuilding the American Dream and surface deeper underlying assumptions about the workforce, unions, employers and other stakeholders.

Through a series of seven workshops and four plenary sessions featuring panels of legislators, labor and management practitioners, and leading researchers, the LERA 2009 NPF will provide a unique opportunity to participate in the public policy dialogue concerning today’s most pressing problems.

Early-bird registration runs through May 15th. Discounted hotel room rates have been arranged at the Washington Hilton and are available through May 21, 2009.

Mitchell H. Rubinstein