Practice-Relevant Scholarship
Converge for Impact believes that workplace law scholarship should be useful to workplace law lawyers. The Practice-Relevant Scholarship Initiative solicits and disseminates topics that can benefit from scholarly research. It promotes accessible, timely academic writing that is responsive to the needs of the legal community and maintains a catalog of on-point research for the workplace law bar.
Fall 2025
Professor Rick Bales Provides a How-To for Effective Labor Arbitration Briefs
In his recently published article, Writing Effective Labor Arbitration Briefs, Ohio Northern University Law School Professor Richard A. Bales sheds light on a critical aspect of labor arbitration: the written brief.
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Professor Alvin Velazquez Offers New Playbook for Building Union Power
Workplace law scholar Alvin Velazquez (Indiana) has published an essay, Using Business Law to Build Labor Power, in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, demonstrating how the labor movement can deploy corporate and bankruptcy law as tools to build worker power. Bringing his perspective as a former Associate General Counsel to the Service Employees […]
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Labor Organizing by Independent Contractors?
Professor Sam Estreicher and Attorney Jack Samuel contend that, whatever the prospects for legal change, independent contractors who supply solely their own labor can organize and demand bargaining without fearing antitrust suits.
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Professor Roberto Corrada Tackles College Athlete Unionization Concerns
Professor Roberto Corrada’s scholarship on college athlete unionization tackles practical concerns of unionization and offers pathways for student athlete collective bargaining to succeed despite seeming incompatibilities with existing law.
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Labor Law Attorney Joel Heller Challenges the Rhetoric of the “Labor Gerrymander”
D.C.-based labor law attorney Joel Heller shared his expertise with the legal academy in his recently published law review article, The Labor Gerrymander.
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Professor Sandra Sperino Defines “Sexual Harassment” Ahead of the Courts
Professor Sandra Sperino is one of the first to theorize the scope of “sexual harassment” under the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act (EFASASHA). Her analysis is likely to be highly influential as courts consider the scope of this new law.
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