Phone: 217-333-3884
Email: mfinkin@law.uiuc.edu
A.B. Ohio Wesleyan University
LL.B. New York University
LL.M. Yale University
Courses
Individual Employee Relations
Labor Law
Vita
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Professor Finkin, the Albert J. Harno and Edward W. Cleary Chair in Law, teaches courses in labor and employment law and directs the College of Law’s Program in Comparative Labor and Employment Law and Policy. He has taught in the law schools of Southern Methodist University, Duke University, and the University of Michigan. He has been a Fulbright Professor at Münster University, a German Marshall Fund Lecturer at Konstanz University, and is a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Research Award for internationally acknowledged achievements in the field of labor law. Professor Finkin is the author, editor, or co-editor of eight books, including the leading single volume treatise on labor law, Basic Text on Labor Law (2d ed. 2004) with Robert A. Gorman, the leading law school casebook, Labor Law (with Archibald Cox, Derek Bok and Robert Gorman), now in its 14th edition; Introduction to German Law (with Werner Ebke; Kluwer International, 1996); Privacy in Employment Law (BNA, 2nd ed., 2003); and the award-winning The Case for Tenure (Cornell, 1996). He has also authored an extensive body of scholarly periodical publications in labor and employment law, higher education law, and comparative law. In 1997, Professor Finkin assumed the General Editorship of the Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal. He also serves as Senior Editor of the Bureau of National Affairs Series, International Labor & Employment Laws, as a member of the Commerce Clearing House’s Panel of Labor Law Experts, and on the editorial boards of several journals. In 2004, he was elected as a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.Over his career, Professor Finkin has lectured widely in the United States, Asia, and Europe, and is active as a labor arbitrator. He has served the American Association of University Professors as General Counsel (1976-78) and as Chairman of its Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure (1980-90). He is a member of the Governing Board of the Institute for Labor Law and Labor Relations in the European Community in Trier, Germany.
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