James B Atleson
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
B.A, J.D., Ohio State University
LL.M., Stanford University
University at Buffalo Law School
The State University of New York
424 O'Brian
Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
Phone:(716) 636-2381
Faculty Assistant:
Suzanne Caruso, 417 O'Brian Hall, Phone: (716) 645-5598
Biography:
James B. Atleson is a Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at the University at Buffalo Law School, where he taught from 1964 to Spring 2007. Atleson's research focused on international labor law, especially cross-border collective and sympathetic action. He taught courses in labor law, collective bargaining, internal union democracy, labor law history, international labor law, and law and the visual arts.
Selected Publications:
Labor and the Wartime State (Univ. of Ill. Press, 1998)
Values and Assumptions in American Labor Law (Univ. of Mass Press, 1983)
Collective Bargaining in Private Employment (chair and coauthor with Robert J. Rabin, George Schatzki, Herbert L. Sherman, and Eileen Silverstein) (Bureau of National Affairs, 1978; 2d ed., West Pub. 1984)
"Arbitration: The Presence of Values in a Rational Decisionmaking System, " in Arbitration 1997: The Next Fifty Years, Proceedings of the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Arbitrators, Joyce Najita, ed. (BNA 1998)
"Confronting Judicial Values: Rewriting the Law of Work in a Common Law System, " 45 Buffalo Law Review 435 (1997)
The Role of Law and Union Organizing: Thoughts on the United States and Canada" in Lawrence Flood, ed., Unions and Public Policy: The New Economy, Law and Democratic Politics (Greenwood, 1995)
"Wartime Labor Regulation, the Industrial Pluralists, and the Law of Collective Bargaining, " in Nelson Lichtenstein and Howell John Harris, eds., Industrial Democracy in America: The Amiguous Promise (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993)
