Volume 87: Issue 1

Indiana Law Journal
Volume 87: Issue 1
Winter 2012
SYMPOSIUM: LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW UNDER THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: A TIME FOR HOPE AND CHANGE?
Introduction
Swimming in the Crosscurrents of History: Labor and Employment Law Under the Obama Administration
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt & Matthew Kelley
PANEL ONE
THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT FOR LABOR UNDER BARACK OBAMA: THE ECONOMY, CAN OBAMA BAIL OUT WORKERS?
Becoming Too Small to Bail? Prospects for Workers in the 2011 Economy and 112th Congress
Lonnie Golden
Labor Policy in the Great Recession
Robert J. Flanagan
DISCUSSANTS
Keynes Was Right!
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt
Labor Policy and the Great Recession: An Economist’s Perspective
Elyce Rotella
PANEL TWO
LABOR LAW: CHANGE IN THE LAW GOVERNING EMPLOYEE COLLECTIVE RIGHTS? LABOR LAW POLICY IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
Beyond Labor Law: Private Initiatives to Promote Employee Freedom of Association in the Obama Era
William B. Gould IV
Labored Law: Bilateralism or Pluralism, Ossification or Reformation?
John N. Raudabaugh
DISCUSSANT
Moving Beyond the Zero-Sum Game: Joint Management-Employee Committees In the Twenty-First Century
Karl G. Nelson
PANEL THREE
LABOR LAW: THE OBAMA BOARD
Televising the Supreme Court: Why Legislation Fails
R. Patrick Thornberry