{"id":16489,"date":"2015-03-10T08:30:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T12:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/?p=16489"},"modified":"2015-03-10T11:40:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T15:40:43","slug":"workplace-inequality-discussed-stetson-law-review-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2015\/03\/10\/workplace-inequality-discussed-stetson-law-review-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Workplace inequality topic of Stetson Law Review symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questioning how labor and employment laws can address growing workplace inequality was\u00a0the topic of the <em>Stetson Law Review<\/em> symposium on\u00a0March 6 at Stetson University College of Law\u00a0in\u00a0Gulfport, Florida.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17084\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17084\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WilmaLiebman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17084\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WilmaLiebman-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"Wilma Liebman provided the keynote.\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wilma Liebman, former NLRB chair, provided the keynote.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The program included keynote speaker Wilma Liebman, former chair of the National Labor Relations Board; featured speaker Timothy Noah, the labor and employment editor for <em>Politico<\/em> and author of <em>The Great Divergence<\/em>; and moderator David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, distinguished visiting lecturer at Syracuse University College of Law and the editor of<em> Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The law didn&#8217;t create labor power, labor did, &#8221; said Liebman.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium topic, &#8220;Inequality, Opportunity, and the Law of the Workplace,&#8221; explored\u00a0growing economic inequality in the U.S., opportunities for upward mobility, and the proper role of labor and employment laws in ensuring adequate opportunities for mobility.<\/p>\n<p>Symposium articles will be published in the <em>Stetson Law Review<\/em>. To learn more about the <em>Stetson Law Review<\/em>, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/lawreview\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/lawreview\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questioning how labor and employment laws can address growing workplace inequality was\u00a0the topic of the Stetson Law Review symposium on\u00a0March 6 at Stetson University College of Law\u00a0in\u00a0Gulfport, Florida. 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