Homepage Highlights Archive

  • On December 10, Professor Michael Fischl will present an exam-taking workshop for first-year students at Northeastern Law School with former dean, Jeremy Paul. Fischl and Paul are co-authors of Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams.

  • On October 1, Professor Michael Fischl will present his paper, "Common Law for Labor Relations (Redux)," at a faculty workshop at Rutgers School of Law, Camden.

  • On September 15, Professor Michael Fischl will present "Workplace Equality and  the Challenge to Public Sector Collective Bargaining: Some Lessons from Wisconsin" at a labor and employment law colloquium at Northwestern Law School.

  • On July 20, Professor Michael Fischl will present "Workplace Equality and the Challenge to Public Sector Bargaining" at the New England Consortium of State Labor Relations Agencies 12th Annual Conference.

  • On June 5, Professor Michael Fischl will present "Workplace Equality and the Challenge to Public Sector Collective Bargaining: Some Lessons from Wisconsin" at the 2012 International Conference on Law and Society.

  • On March 30, Professor Michael Fischl will present "A Common Law for Labor Relations (Redux)" as part of the faculty workshop series at University of Tulsa College of Law.

  • On January 19, Professor Michael Fischl will present a faculty workshop at Wayne State University Law School on the challenges of teaching labor law in 2012.

  • In early September, Professor Michael Fischl will travel to Great Britain to deliver "A Common Law for Labor Relations (Redux)" at two events.

  • Professor Michael Fischl has posted a piece on the Yale Law Journal Online about the role of unions for public sector employees and the struggle between democratic governance and authoritarian control in the American workplace.

  • During the week of June 6, Professor Michael Fischl will be teaching at The 2011 Workshop of the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School.

  • On June 4, Professor Michael Fischl will present his paper, "A Common Law for Labor Relations (Redux)," at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association in San Francisco.

  • On Monday April 4, Professor Michael Fischl will be speaking at a program at Yale Law School, "Coming Soon to a State Capitol Near You? The Assault on Public Sector Unions and What's at Stake in the Wisconsin Crisis." 

  • Professor Michael Fischl will present his paper, “Dignity and Dismissal,” at a conference on “The Theology of Work and the Dignity of Workers” at St. John’s School of Law, March 18 and 19.

  • On February 25, Professor Michael Fischl will participate in a conference at Harvard Law School honoring the 30th anniversary of Local 1330 v. U.S. Steel, sponsored by Unbound, Harvard’s Journal of the Legal Left. He will speak on a panel entitled “Pedagogy: Teaching Local 1330” with Professors Karl Klare and Joseph Singer.

  • On February 19, Professor Michael Fischl will moderate “Revitalizing the Labor Movement: What Is the Lawyer’s Role?” at the 17th Annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference at Yale Law School.

  • Professors Ruth Mason and Michael Fischl have been appointed contributing editors of JOTWELL, an online journal reviewing cutting edge scholarship in a variety of fields.

  • On November 22, Professor Michael Fischl will join Thanos Zartaloudis of Birkbeck School of Law (University of London) for a special guest seminar on "The Theory of Common Law Precedent" sponsored by the Law and Humanities Program at Cardozo Law School.

  • On November 8, Dean Jeremy Paul and Professor Michael Fischl will present "Techniques for Exam Taking Success" at an Academic Success Workshop. Paul and Fischl are co-authors of Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams.

  • On October 23, Dean Jeremy Paul and Professor Michael Fischl, co-authors of Getting to Maybe: How to Succeed on Law School Exams, will be giving an exam-taking workshop at the 2010 Northeast BLSA Academic Retreat at Harvard Law School.

  • On October 1, Professor Michael Fischl will present a talk at the Marquette Law  Review Symposium, "Promoting Employee Voice in the New American Economy."

  • Professor Michael Fischl's essay, "Pedagogy and Critique: Values and Assumptions in the Law School Classroom," has been selected for the inaugural issue of The Docket, a new web site launched by the Buffalo Law Review.

  • Professors Michael Fischl, Leslie Levin, Sachin Pandya, and Peter Siegelman will participate in the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association, an organization founded in 1964 dedicated to the study of sociolegal phenomena.