Publications

  In Press 

• Contract, Race, and Freedom of Labor in the Constitutional Law of “Involuntary Servitude,” 119 Yale L. J. __ (forthcoming).
  
 
• Labor and Employment Law - United States, Oxford Encyclopedia of Legal History (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).
  
 
• The Workers’ Freedom of Association Under the Thirteenth Amendment, Then and Now (Book Chapter), in Alexander Tsesis ed., The Promises of Liberty: Thirteenth Amendment Abolitionism and Its Contemporary Vitality (forthcoming Columbia University Press).
  
 
• Class Conflicts of Law II: Solidarity, Entrepreneurship, and the Deep Agenda of the Obama NLRB, 56 Buff. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2009) (symposium commemorating the 25th anniversary of James B. Atleson’s Values and Assumptions in American Labor Law).
  
 

  Major Published Writings 

• Worker Lawmaking, Sit-Down Strikes, and the Shaping of American Industrial Relations, 1935-1958, 24 Law & Hist. Rev. 45-113 (2006).
  
 
• How American Workers Lost the Right to Strike, and Other Tales, 103 Mich. L. Rev. 518-53 (2004).
  

• Toward a New Labor Law (with Peter Kellman & Ed Bruno) (Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute, 2003).
  
  
• The Western Pennsylvania Coal Strike of 1933, Parts I (Lawmaking from Below and the Revival of the United Mine Workers) & II (Lawmaking from Above and the Demise of Democracy in the United Mine Workers), 44 Labor History 15-47, 235-64 (2003).
  
  
• The Thirteenth Amendment versus the Commerce Clause:  Labor and the Shaping of American Constitutional Law, 1921-1957, 102 Colum. L. Rev. 1-122 (2002).
  
 
• Labor's Constitution of Freedom, 106 Yale L.J. 941-1031 (1997).
  
 
• Labor-Community Coalitions and Boycotts: The Old Labor Law, The New Unionism and The Living Constitution, 69 Tex. L. Rev. 889-974 (1991) (Abstract).
  
 
• Republican Moments:  The Role of Direct Popular Power in the American Constitutional Order, 139 U. Pa. L. Rev. 287-368 (1990).
  
 
• Two Faces Two Ethics:  Labor Union Lawyers and the Emerging Doctrine of Entity Ethics, 68 Ore. L. Rev. 1-55 (1989).
  
 
• Labor and the Constitution:  From Abolition to Deindustrialization, 65 Tex. L. Rev. 1071-1136 (1987).
  
 
• The Three-Systems Ladder of First Amendment Values:  Two Rungs and a Black Hole, 11 Hastings Const. L.Q. 189-246 (1984).
  
 
• Free Speech Rights of Union Officials Under the LMRDA, 18 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 525-84 (1983).
  
  

• Class Conflicts of Law I: Unilateral Worker Lawmaking versus Unilateral Employer Lawmaking in the U.S. Workplace, 56 Buff. L. Rev.1095-1127 (2008) (symposium on class and law).
  
 
• The Employee Free Choice Act and a Strategy for Winning Workers’ Rights (with Peter Kellman & Ed Bruno), Working USA, March 2008, 125-44 (symposium on the crisis in labor law).
  
 
• Free Labor Today (with Peter Kellman & Ed Bruno), New Labor Forum, Spring 2007, 8-18.
  
  
• The Toledo Auto-Lite Strike and the Fight Against “Wage Slavery” (second author, with Rebecca Zietlow), 38 U. Tol. L. Rev. 839-54 (2007) (symposium on the Thirteenth Amendment).
  
  
• Next-Wave Organizing and the Transition to a New Paradigm of Labor Law, 50 N.Y.L.S. L. Rev. 515-59 (2006) (symposium on next-wave organizing).
  
 
• National Industrial Recovery Act (1933) (encyclopedia entry), in Brian K. Landsberg, ed., Major Acts of Congress (2003).
  
 
• Toward a New Labor Rights Movement (with Peter Kellman & Ed Bruno), Working USA, Spring 2001, 8-33. 

• The First Amendment, the Thirteenth Amendment, and the Right to Organize in the Twenty-first Century, 51 Rut. L. Rev. 941-69 (1999) (symposium on the Rutgers tradition).
  
 
• Fusion, Timmons v. Twin Cities Area New Party, and the Future of Third Parties in the United States, 50 Rut. L. Rev. 473-506 (1998).
  
 
• An Approach to State Constitutional Interpretation, 24 Rut. L.J. 985-1008 (1993) (symposium on state constitutional law).
  
 
• Some Possible Lessons for Canada of the United States' Experience With Major Constitutional Change, 37 McGill L.J. 1-26 (1992).
  
 
• The Past of Labor Law -- And Its Future (Review of Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement, by William Forbath), 39 U.C.L.A. L. Rev. 481-502 (1991).