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Expertise
- Comparative Law
- Employment Law
- Labor Law
Bio
Clyde Summers’ teaching and writing is primarily in the fields of labor and employment law, and in comparative and international labor law. In addition to contracts, he presently teaches labor and employment law, labor arbitration and international and comparative labor law, but in his 60 years of full-time teaching he has taught more than 20 different courses and a variety of seminars. He has co-edited five casebooks on labor and employment law, and published more than 125 law review articles and contributions to symposia. His writings cover a wide spectrum, but his dominant focus has been on the rights of the individual worker in relation to the employer, and in relation to the union. His writings presaged, and he participated in the drafting of the Landrum Griffin Act designed to protect and promote the democratic process in unions. His seminal article advocating statutory protection against unjust dismissal provided the model for the Commission of Uniform State Laws’ Model Employment Termination Act. His present research and writing concern the human rights of workers under free trade agreements, and on compulsory arbitration clauses in individual employment contracts. In addition to his scholarly writings, Summers has been an active arbitrator and for 20 years was Umpire for the anthracite coal industry.
Before coming to Penn, Summers taught at the University of Toledo, University of Buffalo and Yale University. He has been a visiting professor at Cornell, Minnesota, Mississippi, Puerto Rico, Utah, Sendai (Japan) and Witwatersand (South Africa) universities. He has presented nine name lectureships in this country and has lectured in ten other countries. He has held Ford, Fulbright, German Marshall, Guggenheim, and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. He has been awarded honorary degrees from the University of Leuven (Belgium), University of Stockholm (Sweden) and the University of Illinois. He is presently President of the World Congress of the International Society for Labor Law and Social Security.
Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Fordham Professor of Law (1975 -)
Yale - Garver Professor (1965-75); Professor (1957-65)
Visiting Professor - Minnesota, Utah, Puerto Rico, Witwatersand (South Africa)
Buffalo - Professor (1954-56); Associate Professor (1949-54)
Toledo - Associate Professor (1946-49); Assistant Professor (1944-45); Instructor 1942-44)
Representative Publications
Mandatory Arbitration: Privatizing Public Rights, Compelling the Unwilling to Arbitrate, 6 U. PA. J. LAB. & EMP. L. 685 (2004).
Public Sector Bargaining, 5 U. PA. J. LAB. & EMPL. L. 441 (2003).
Individualism, Collectivism and Autonomy in American Labor Law, 5 EMPLOYEE RTS. & EMP. POL'Y J. 453 (2001).
The Battle in Seattle: Free Trade, Labor Rights and Societal Values, 22 U. PA. J. INT'L ECON. L. 61 (2001).
Employment at Will in the United States: The Divine Right of Employers, 3 U. PA. J LAB. & EMP. L. 65 (2000).
NAFTA; LABOR SIDE AGREEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL LABOR STANDARDS, 3 J. SMALL & EMERG: BUS L. 173 (1999).
Worker Dislocation: Who Bears the Burden? A Comparative Study of Social Values in Five Countries, 70 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1033 (1995).
The Trilogy and Its Offspring Revisited: It's a Contract Stupid, 71 WASH. U. L. Q. 2021 (1993).
Effective Remedies and Employment Rights: Preliminary Guidelines and Proposals, 141 U. PA. L. REV. 457 (1992).
Democracy in One Party State: Perspectives from Landman-Griffin, 43 MD. L. REV. 93 (1989).
Worker Participation in Sweden and the United States: Some Comparison from an American Perspective, 133 U. PA. L. REV. 93 (1989).
Industrial Democracy: America's Unfilled Promise, 28 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 29 (1979).
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Current & Recent Research
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Education
- J.S.D. - Columbia - '52
- J.D. - Illinois - '42
- B.S. - Illinois - '39
Courses Taught
- Contracts
- Labor Law
- Employment Law
- Labor Arbitration
- International and Comparative Labor Law
Research Areas
- Labor and Employment Law
- Comparative and International Labor Law
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