Professor Malin writes and teaches primarily in the areas of labor and employment law. He is the author of Individual Rights Within the Union and co-author of The Legal Environment of Business: Public Law and Regulation. Professor Malin is a past president of the Chicago chapter of the Industrial Relations Research Association and a past chair of the Association of American Law Schools Labor Law Section. He is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators and the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, serves on a number of state and national arbitration panels, and is a hearing officer for the Chicago Commission on Human Rights. During 1984 and 1985 he served as consultant to the Illinois State, Local and Educational Labor Relations Boards and drafted the Boards’ regulations implementing the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act and the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Professor Malin received his bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and his law degree from George Washington University, where he was editor of the George Washington Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. After graduation, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert E. DeMascio, United States District Judge, Eastern District of Michigan. He taught at Ohio State University before joining the Chicago-Kent faculty in 1980.
Articles
Do Cognitive Biases Affect Adjudication?: A Study of Labor Arbitrators (with Monica Biernat) (forthcoming) (with Monica Biernat), University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business and Employment Law (2008)
Labor arbitrators were presented with four cases to decide, each involving a challenge to discipline...
Political Ideology and Labor Arbitrators' Decision-Making in Work-Family Conflict Cases (with M. Biernat), Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2008)
Revisiting the Meltzer-Howlett Debate over External Law in Labor Arbitration: It’s Time for Courts to Declare Howlett the Winner (forthcoming 2008), The Labor Lawyer (2008)
Due Process in Employment Arbitration: The State of the Law and the Need for Self-Regulation, Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal (2007)
Charter Schools and Collective Bargaining: Compatible Marriage or Illegitimate Relationship? (with C. Kerchner), Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (2007)
The rapid increase in charter schools has been fueled by the view that traditional public...
Books
Contributions to Books
The Legal and Administrative Context of Work and Family Leave and Related Policies in the USA, Canada and the European Union (with R. Block, E. Ernst Kossek & A. Holt), Work-Life Balance: a Psychological Perspective (2006)
Public Sector Labor Law Doctrine and Labor Management Cooperation, Going Public: The Role of Labor-Management Relations in Delivering Quality Government Services (2003)
Other Federal Laws Covering Age Discrimination in Employment (with Howard Eglit), Age Discrimination (1982)
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