Labor Law

Recent Case: NLRB v. International Ass’n of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental, and Reinforcing Iron Workers, Local 229

November 22, 2019 Labor law holds a precarious place within First Amendment jurisprudence. Since the 1930s, unions have enjoyed both protections and constraints that appear to push...

Labor Law Recent Case

Recent Case: Salazar v. McDonald’s Corp.

October 18, 2019 Over 90 percent of McDonald’s restaurants in the United States are franchises. Franchising has many benefits for both the franchisor (who saves substantial operating...

Labor Law Blog Essay

Trump-Appointed Labor Board’s Impatient Agenda to Reformulate Labor Law

August 7, 2019 Congress framed the National Labor Relations Act in 1935, during a period of confidence in the administrative state, using broad language and excluding a...

Michael C. Harper

Antitrust Recent Case

Chamber of Commerce v. City of Seattle

Ninth Circuit Holds Collective Bargaining Ordinance Not Entitled to State Action Immunity.

Vol. 132 No. 8 June 2019

Corporations Book Review

Corporate Personhood v. Corporate Statehood

Vol. 132 No. 7 May 2019 In 2011, at the Iowa State Fair, presidential candidate Mitt Romney gave a pitch for why fairgoers should support him in the upcoming caucuses....

Nikolas Bowie

Labor Law Blog Essay

A Weakening of Overtime Regulation Reform

May 6, 2019 Elections, especially Presidential elections, have consequences. Few need reminding of this truism after 2016. But the distributional consequences of American Presidential elections have long...

Michael C. Harper

Antitrust Articles

Labor Law Case Comment

Compelled Subsidies and the First Amendment

Vol. 132 No. 1 November 2018 Sometimes the government compels people to pay money to organizations they oppose. A lawyer may be forced to fund a bar association, a college...