Professor Secunda teaches labor law, employee benefits, employment discrimination law, employment law, education law, and civil procedure, and has just finished his tenth year of teaching. He is he faculty advisor for the Marquette Law School Labor and Employment Law Society. He was a visiting professor at the Universite de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense during June 2011, a visiting professor of law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School during the summer and fall 2011 semesters, and the 2012 Hicks Morley Visiting Professor of International Labour Law at The Western Ontario Faculty of Law in London, Ontario in January 2012. In April 2012, he will both be a visiting professor of law for the part-time LLM Comparative Law Program and visiting scholar at the Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. Professor Secunda is the author of over fifty books, treatises, articles, and shorter writings on labor and employment law, employee benefits law, and education law. His research particularly focuses on: the constitutional rights of public employees, the organizational and collective bargaining rights of public and private sector employees (especially in light of the Wisconsin moment in public sector labor law), the pension and health insurance rights of U.S. employees in comparison to other countries, and the rights of special education children. His recent articles on these topics have appeared in the UCLA, Florida State, Notre Dame, Fordham, San Diego, Colorado, Hastings, and Wisconsin Law Reviews; his essays have been published in the online journals at Yale, Penn and Northwestern. He is also the author of a number of current and forthcoming books, including: Understanding Employment Law (with Rick Bales and Jeff Hirsch); Global Issues in Employee Benefits Law (with Samuel Estreicher and Rosalind Connor); Mastering Employment Discrimination Law (with Jeff Hirsch); Labor Law: A Problem-Based Approach (with Jeff Hirsch) (forthcoming 2012); and Mastering Labor Law (with Jeff Hirsch and Joseph Slater) (forthcoming 2013). Professor Secunda is the past national Chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Sections on Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Labor Relations and Employment Law, and Employment Discrimination Law. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI), serving on the Members Consultative Group for the Restatement of Employment Law.В A long-time contributing editor to the Workplace Prof Blog, one of the top labor and employment law blogs in the country, Professor Secunda is also the moderator of the empdiscr and benefitsprof-l listservs, the co-author of numerous amicus briefs in labor and employment law cases (including as a co-author of the Amicus Brief filed by Civil Procedure Professors in Support of Respondents in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes), and a frequent commentator in the national and Wisconsin media and press on labor, employment, benefit, and education law issues.
Education Law
Tales of a Law Professor Lateral Nothing, ExpressO (2008)
This Essay seeks to uncover the mysterious world of the law professor lateral hiring market,...
The Solomon Amendment, Expressive Associations, and Public Employment, UCLA Law Review (2007)
Rumsfeld v. FAIR apparently concedes that public employers, in the guise of public law school...
Employment Practice
Privatizing Workplace Privacy, ExpressO (2012)
Perhaps “the” question in this age of workplace technological innovation concerns the amount of privacy...
Cognitive Illiberalism and Debiasing Strategies, ExpressO (2011)
Legal realist scholars of a generation ago posited that judicial perception of facts reflect previously-held...
Psychological Realism in Labor and Employment Law, ExpressO (2011)
Facts matter, especially in labor and employment law cases. But not in the way that...
NEOFORMALISM AND THE REEMERGENCE OF THE RIGHTS/PRIVILEGE DISTINCTION IN PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT LAW, ExpressO (2010)
The First Amendment speech rights of public employees, which have traditionally enjoyed protection under the...
CULTURAL COGNITION AT WORK, ExpressO (2010)
Cultural cognition theory provides an anthropological and psychological-based theory about how values actually influence judicial...
Constitutional Law
NEOFORMALISM AND THE REEMERGENCE OF THE RIGHTS/PRIVILEGE DISTINCTION IN PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT LAW, ExpressO (2010)
The First Amendment speech rights of public employees, which have traditionally enjoyed protection under the...
CULTURAL COGNITION AT WORK, ExpressO (2010)
Cultural cognition theory provides an anthropological and psychological-based theory about how values actually influence judicial...
“The Longest Journey, With A First Step”: Bringing Coherence To Sovereignty And Jurisdictional Issues In Global Employee Benefits Law, ExpressO (2008)
One of the most neglected areas of employee benefits law in the United States today...
The Solomon Amendment, Expressive Associations, and Public Employment, UCLA Law Review (2007)
Rumsfeld v. FAIR apparently concedes that public employers, in the guise of public law school...
Whither the Pickering Rights of Federal Employees?, ExpressO (2007)
As a result of the Supreme Court's 1983 decision in Bush v. Lucas, federal employees...
Civil Rights
Cognitive Illiberalism and Debiasing Strategies, ExpressO (2011)
Legal realist scholars of a generation ago posited that judicial perception of facts reflect previously-held...
The Forgotten Employee Benefit Crisis: Multiemployer Benefit Plans on the Brink, ExpressO (2011)
This article provides a first time look at the numerous challenges facing multiemployer or Taft-Hartley...
NEOFORMALISM AND THE REEMERGENCE OF THE RIGHTS/PRIVILEGE DISTINCTION IN PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT LAW, ExpressO (2010)
The First Amendment speech rights of public employees, which have traditionally enjoyed protection under the...
“The Longest Journey, With A First Step”: Bringing Coherence To Sovereignty And Jurisdictional Issues In Global Employee Benefits Law, ExpressO (2008)
One of the most neglected areas of employee benefits law in the United States today...
The Solomon Amendment, Expressive Associations, and Public Employment, UCLA Law Review (2007)
Rumsfeld v. FAIR apparently concedes that public employers, in the guise of public law school...
Labor Law
Cognitive Illiberalism and Debiasing Strategies, ExpressO (2011)
Legal realist scholars of a generation ago posited that judicial perception of facts reflect previously-held...
The Forgotten Employee Benefit Crisis: Multiemployer Benefit Plans on the Brink, ExpressO (2011)
This article provides a first time look at the numerous challenges facing multiemployer or Taft-Hartley...
Psychological Realism in Labor and Employment Law, ExpressO (2011)
Facts matter, especially in labor and employment law cases. But not in the way that...
CULTURAL COGNITION AT WORK, ExpressO (2010)
Cultural cognition theory provides an anthropological and psychological-based theory about how values actually influence judicial...
“The Longest Journey, With A First Step”: Bringing Coherence To Sovereignty And Jurisdictional Issues In Global Employee Benefits Law, ExpressO (2008)
One of the most neglected areas of employee benefits law in the United States today...
Public Law and Legal Theory
CULTURAL COGNITION AT WORK, ExpressO (2010)
Cultural cognition theory provides an anthropological and psychological-based theory about how values actually influence judicial...
“The Longest Journey, With A First Step”: Bringing Coherence To Sovereignty And Jurisdictional Issues In Global Employee Benefits Law, ExpressO (2008)
One of the most neglected areas of employee benefits law in the United States today...
The (Neglected) Importance of Being Lawrence: The Constitutionalization of Public Employee Rights to Decisional Non-Interference in Private Affairs, ExpressO (2006)
This paper argues that whatever debates continue to stew regarding the true meaning of Lawrence...
Administrative Law
“The Longest Journey, With A First Step”: Bringing Coherence To Sovereignty And Jurisdictional Issues In Global Employee Benefits Law, ExpressO (2008)
One of the most neglected areas of employee benefits law in the United States today...
Whither the Pickering Rights of Federal Employees?, ExpressO (2007)
As a result of the Supreme Court's 1983 decision in Bush v. Lucas, federal employees...
Legal Education
“The Longest Journey, With A First Step”: Bringing Coherence To Sovereignty And Jurisdictional Issues In Global Employee Benefits Law, ExpressO (2008)
One of the most neglected areas of employee benefits law in the United States today...
Tales of a Law Professor Lateral Nothing, ExpressO (2008)
This Essay seeks to uncover the mysterious world of the law professor lateral hiring market,...
International Law
“The Longest Journey, With A First Step”: Bringing Coherence To Sovereignty And Jurisdictional Issues In Global Employee Benefits Law, ExpressO (2008)
One of the most neglected areas of employee benefits law in the United States today...
Immigration Law
“The Longest Journey, With A First Step”: Bringing Coherence To Sovereignty And Jurisdictional Issues In Global Employee Benefits Law, ExpressO (2008)
One of the most neglected areas of employee benefits law in the United States today...
Comparative Law
“The Longest Journey, With A First Step”: Bringing Coherence To Sovereignty And Jurisdictional Issues In Global Employee Benefits Law, ExpressO (2008)
One of the most neglected areas of employee benefits law in the United States today...
Retirement Security
The Forgotten Employee Benefit Crisis: Multiemployer Benefit Plans on the Brink, ExpressO (2011)
This article provides a first time look at the numerous challenges facing multiemployer or Taft-Hartley...
Psychological Realism in Labor and Employment Law, ExpressO (2011)
Facts matter, especially in labor and employment law cases. But not in the way that...
“The Longest Journey, With A First Step”: Bringing Coherence To Sovereignty And Jurisdictional Issues In Global Employee Benefits Law, ExpressO (2008)
One of the most neglected areas of employee benefits law in the United States today...
Courts
CULTURAL COGNITION AT WORK, ExpressO (2010)
Cultural cognition theory provides an anthropological and psychological-based theory about how values actually influence judicial...
Psychology and Psychiatry
Cognitive Illiberalism and Debiasing Strategies, ExpressO (2011)
Legal realist scholars of a generation ago posited that judicial perception of facts reflect previously-held...
Psychological Realism in Labor and Employment Law, ExpressO (2011)
Facts matter, especially in labor and employment law cases. But not in the way that...
CULTURAL COGNITION AT WORK, ExpressO (2010)
Cultural cognition theory provides an anthropological and psychological-based theory about how values actually influence judicial...
Judges
Cognitive Illiberalism and Debiasing Strategies, ExpressO (2011)
Legal realist scholars of a generation ago posited that judicial perception of facts reflect previously-held...
CULTURAL COGNITION AT WORK, ExpressO (2010)
Cultural cognition theory provides an anthropological and psychological-based theory about how values actually influence judicial...
State and Local Government Law
NEOFORMALISM AND THE REEMERGENCE OF THE RIGHTS/PRIVILEGE DISTINCTION IN PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT LAW, ExpressO (2010)
The First Amendment speech rights of public employees, which have traditionally enjoyed protection under the...
Law and Society
Cognitive Illiberalism and Debiasing Strategies, ExpressO (2011)
Legal realist scholars of a generation ago posited that judicial perception of facts reflect previously-held...
NEOFORMALISM AND THE REEMERGENCE OF THE RIGHTS/PRIVILEGE DISTINCTION IN PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT LAW, ExpressO (2010)
The First Amendment speech rights of public employees, which have traditionally enjoyed protection under the...
Constitutional Law, Generally
Privatizing Workplace Privacy, ExpressO (2012)
Perhaps “the” question in this age of workplace technological innovation concerns the amount of privacy...