U Law School new home for The Labor Lawyer

Contacts: Ryan Mathre, University News Service, (612) 625-0552, mathre@umn.edu

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (06/25/2009) — The University of Minnesota Law School will be the new home for The Labor Lawyer which commences editorship in summer 2009 with the journal’s 25th volume. Professors Laura Cooper and Stephen Befort are the journal’s new co-editors and will edit collaboratively with a team of students led by editor-in-chief Jack Sullivan. The six-member student editorial board is already at work selecting eight second-year students who will serve as staff members.

The Labor Lawyer is a publication of the American Bar Association’s Section of Labor and Employment Law, which selected Cooper and Befort to head the editorial staff following a national competition. The journal’s mission is to meet the practical needs of attorneys, judges and administrators working in labor and employment law by providing balanced discussions of developments in the field and the broader policy issues that underlie these developments.

The Labor Lawyer has been published since 1985. The more than 27,000 members of the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law are automatic subscribers; nonmembers may also subscribe. It features direct and informal articles written largely by professors and practicing attorneys. Beginning with the move to Minnesota, the journal will, for the first time, also publish notes by student staff members.

Formerly, The Labor Lawyer was housed at Syracuse University College of Law and directed by Robert Rabin, who continues to teach labor and employment law at Syracuse and serves as a labor arbitrator, mediator and fact-finder.