THURSDAY JANUARY 27, 2005

9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
Opening Keynote

Joel Rogers
Professor of Law, Political Science & Sociology, Center on Wisconsin Strategy
University of Wisconsin Law School

10:15 a.m.–12:00 noon
Organizers: New Goals, New Methods

Carlin Meyer, moderator
Professor, New York Law School

Sara Horowitz
Founder & Executive Director, Working Today

Jonathon Lange
Industrial Areas Foundation

Karen Nussbaum
Assistant to the President, AFL-CIO
Executive Director, Working America

Nadia Marin-Molina
Executive Director, The Workplace Project

Edward Sabol
Organizing Director, Communications Workers of America

12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
Luncheon Keynote

Henry H. Perritt, Jr.
Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law

2:00 p.m.–4:15 p.m.
The Theoretical Framework

Seth Harris, moderator
Associate Professor of Law and Director of Labor and Employment Law Programs, New York Law School

Jennifer Gordon
Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law

Danielle van Jaarsveld
Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business

Charles Heckscher
Professor and Director, Center for Workplace Transformation, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations

Fred Feinstein
Visiting Professor and Senior Fellow, Office of Executive Programs, University of Maryland, School of Public Policy

Alan Hyde
Professor of Law and Sidney Reitman Scholar, Rutgers School of Law-Newark

4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Cocktail Reception

FRIDAY JANUARY 28, 2005

8:45 a.m.–10:15 a.m.
The Role of Technology

Beth Noveck, moderator
Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Information Law and Policy, New York Law School

Matthew Bodie
Associate Professor, Hofstra University School of Law

Robert Fox
Deputy Director, Working America

Scott Heiferman
Cofounder and CEO, Meetup.com

10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
The Efficacy of New Worker Organizational Models

Frank Munger, moderator
Professor, New York Law School

Janice Fine
Senior Fellow for Policy and Organizing, Center for Community Change
Research Associate, Economic Policy Institute

Steven Pitts
Labor Policy Specialist, UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education

Victor Narro
Project Director, Downtown Labor Center, Center for Labor Research and Education, UCLA

Thomas A. Kochan
George M. Bunker Professor of Management, Institute for Work and Employment Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—Sloan School of Management

12:45 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
Next-Wave Organizing: A New Paradigm?

James Gray Pope, closing speaker
Professor of Law and Sidney Reitman Scholar, Rutgers School of Law-Newark

Commentators:

Ana Avendaño Denier
Associate General Counsel and Director, Immigrant Worker Program, AFL-CIO

Frank Munger
Professor, New York Law School

Cathy Ruckelshaus
Litigation Director, National Employment Law Project