The University of Texas at Austin   School of Law

Education

• LLM Harvard
• LLB Harvard
• BA City College of New York

Areas of Specialty

• Labor Law
• Literature and the Law

Professor Getman is a preeminent scholar in the field of labor law, where he pioneered empirical studies and continues to do extensive field work. He came to Texas in 1986 from Yale Law School, where he was the William K. Townsend Professor of Law. He has also taught at Stanford Law School, University of Chicago Law School, and Georgetown University Law Center.

His most recent book, Restoring the Power of Unions: It Takes a Movement, was published in 2010 by Yale University Press. He is also author of The Betrayal of Local 14: Paperworkers, Politics and Permanent Replacements (Cornell, 1998) and In the Company of Scholars: The Struggle for the Soul of Higher Education (Texas, 1992); and co-author of both Union Representation Elections: Law and Reality (Russell Sage Foundation, 1976) and Labor Relations: The Basic Processes, Law and Practice (Foundation, 1988). He edited a book of essays in 2004 with former Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall (a faculty member at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT), The Future of Labor Unions: Organized Labor in the 21st Century. He is a former President of the American Association of University Professors.

In 2007, Professor Getman's first novel, Strike!, was published by Plainview Press.

Recent Publications

• A Fairer Fight: Proposed NLRB Rules for Union Elections aren't Radical, They're Sensible and Should be Adopted, Los Angeles Times, July 19, 2011 at A13.
• Ruminations on a Symposium [Papers from the Association of the American Law Schools 2011 Annual Meeting Section of Labor Relations and Employment Law], 15 Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal 557 (2011).
• The Boeing Case: Creating Outrage Out of Very Little, 27 ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law 99 (2011).

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Recent Activities

• Ninth Vienna Globalization Symposium

  October 23, 2008 – October 25, 2008

  European Forum Alpbach, Vienna, Austria

  Presented paper "The Changing Nature of Unions" at the Ninth Vienna Globalization Symposium on October 23, 2008 at the European Forum Alpbach in Vienna, Austria.

• Book Reading

  2007

  Portland, Maine

  Attended a book reading and discussion of his novel STRIKE! in Portland, Maine the first part of 2007.

• Quote

  2007

  Various

  Quoted many times in various newspapers around the country on the Houston janitors strike.

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