The Minnesota Law Review is hosting its annual symposium on October 25, 2013, and this year’s topic is “The Future of Organized Labor: Labor Law in the 21st Century.”
The symposium will feature a number of nationally recognized experts in the field of labor law participating as keynote speakers, panelists, and moderators. Craig Becker, general counsel for the AFL-CIO, and G. Roger King, of counsel at Jones Day, will be delivering keynote addresses on the current state of unions and American labor law followed by a moderated discussion.
The symposium will also include three panels composed of labor law professors, practitioners, and union leaders discussing the following topics:
- Unions in the Crosshairs: How It Happened and the Road Ahead for Labor
- International Labor Law: Opportunity, Solution, or Intrusion?
- Achievable Labor Law Reform
For more details and registration information, visit http://www.minnesotalawreview.org/2013/05/2013-minnesota-law-review-symposium/.
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