Joseph Slater Eugene N. Balk Professor of Law and Values Office:  LC2002C Campus Phone: (419) 530-2008 Fax Number: (419) 530-7911   E-Mail:  joseph.slater@utoledo.edu Secretary:  Lois Patek (419) 530-2965

Professor Slater's CV

Professor Joseph E. Slater, a faculty member since 1999, is a graduate of Georgetown University (PhD), the University of Michigan Law School (JD), and Oberlin College (BA).

Professor Slater has published in the field of labor law and history.

Teaching Awards

Winner, University Outstanding Professor Award, 2008 (one of four chosen from over 250 nominations from the entire University faculty); voted Outstanding Professor of the Year by the Law School Class of 2006; voted Professor of the Year for 2000-01 by the Black Law Students Association. 

Publications

In Progress: Labor Law in the Private and Public Sectors: Cases and Materials (with Seth Harris).

Book Review: James James B. Jacobs, Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement, 26 Law and History Review 224 (2008).

Public Sector Employment: Cases and Materials, 2007 Professors’ Update (with Martin Malin and Ann Hodges).

Book Review: Dennis Gaffney, Teachers United: The Rise of New York State United Teachers, Vol. 94, No. 3 Journal of American History 1011 (2007).

“The ‘American Rule’ that Swallows the Exceptions,” 11 Emp. Rts. & Emp. Pol’y J. 53 (2007).

“Homeland Security vs. Workers Rights?,” a chapter in Samuel Estreicher and Matthew T. Bodie, eds., Workplace Discrimination, Privacy, and Security in an Age of Terrorism: Proceedings of the New York University 55th Annual Conference on Labor (Kluwer Law International, 2007).

“The History of Public Workers,” essay in The Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor & Working-Class History, Eric Arnesen, Bruce Laurie, Joe McCartin, Cindy Hahamovitch, Tera Hunter, and Leon Fink, eds. (2006).

“Do Unions Representing A Minority of Employees Have the Right To Bargain Collectively?: A Review of Charles Morris, The Blue Eagle at Work,” 9 Emp. Rts. & Emp. Pol’y J. 383 (2005).

“Homeland Security vs. Workers Rights? What the Federal Government Should Learn from History and Experience, and Why,” 6 Penn. J. of Lab. & Emp. Law 295 (2004).

Public Workers: Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900-62( Cornell University Press, 2004).

“The Court Does Not Know ‘What a Labor Union is’: How State Structures and Judicial (Mis)Constructions Deformed Public Sector Labor Law,” 79 Oregon L. Rev. 981 (2000).  Excerpted in Joseph Grodin, June Weisberger, and Martin Malin, Public Sector Employment, Cases and Materials (Thomson West, 2003).

“Petting the Infamous Yellow Dog: The Seattle High School Teachers Union and the State, 1928-31,” 23 Seattle U. L. Rev. 485 (2000).

“Public Workers: Labor and the Boston Police Strike of 1919,” 38 Labor History 7 (1997).

“The Rise of Master-Servant and the Fall of Master Narrative: A Review of Labor Law In America,” 15 Berkeley J. of Emp. & Lab. Law 141 (1994).

“Policing Your Paycheck: Wage & Hour Law for Cops,” 1 Police Union Quarterly 113 (1989).

Labor and Employment Law related links:

U.S. National Labor Relations Board

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

The United States Department of Labor Home Page

Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao

SERB'S Home Page

AFL-CIO Main Page

The Peggy Browning Fund-Internships for Law Students

Industrial Relations Research Association Home Page

AFSCME LaborLinks - Public Employee Relations Boards

Economic Policy Institute Home Page | EPI

U.S. Chamber of Commerce: _Channels

National Association of Manufacturers - NAMonline