Faculty Profile

Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt

Willard and Margaret Carr Professor of Labor and Employment Law

In the News

"Struggles mount for labor"Indiana Lawyer,  August  1,  2012

"Right-to-work laws in an election year"To the Point (KCRW Santa Monica, Cal.),  February  2,  2012

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Biography

Professor Dau-Schmidt is a nationally recognized teacher and scholar on the subjects of labor and employment law and the economic analysis of legal problems.

His innovative teaching methods using classroom simulations have been widely featured in publications including the Christian Science Monitor, Chronicle of Higher Education, the Chicago Sun-Times, the National Jurist, and the Indiana Daily Student. In 2003 he was awarded the Leon H. Wallace Award, Indiana Law's top teaching prize, and IU's Sylvia Bowman Award for Teaching Excellence. He received the Excellence in Education Award of the Industrial Relations Research Association in 2004.

He is author of seven books and numerous articles on labor and employment law and the economic analysis of law, and he frequently presents papers at academic conferences and law schools across the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. In 1990 he received the Scholarly Paper Award from the Association of American Law Schools for his work on the economic analysis of the criminal law as a preference-shaping policy.

Dau-Schmidt is active in law school administration, most recently serving as the Associate Dean of Faculty Research. He was also the Chair or Co-Chair of the law school's Center for Law, Society and Culture from 2003-2007 and has been an active participant in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) and IU leadership programs.

Involved in several national academic associations, Dau-Schmidt was elected to the National Council of the American Association of University Professors and appointed to serve on the executive and litigation committees of that organization. He is the past chair of the Labor Law Group and has chaired the Association of American Law School sections on the Economic Analysis of Law and Socio-Economics. In addition, he has served in various capacities on the executive committee of the AALS section on Labor and Employment Law and the Industrial Relations Research Association's section on Labor and Employment Law. He is also a founder of the Midwest Law and Economics Association.

Professor Dau-Schmidt has been fortunate enough to be invited to teach at various European and Asian universities, including Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, Germany; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen, Germany; and Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) in Paris. He is also an affiliated faculty member with Peking University's School of Transnational Law in Shenzen, China.

Selected Works

• Promoting Employee Voice in the American Economy: A Call for Comprehensive Reform , 94 MARQUETTE L. REV. 765 (2011).
• Review of Labor and Employment Decisions from the Supreme Court's 2008-2009 Term , 25 ABA J. LAB. & EMP. LAW 107 (2010) (with Todd Dvorak).
• LEGAL PROTECTION FOR THE INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYEE, 4th ed. (with M. Finkin and R. Covington). Eagan, MN: West Law School, 2011.
• A Conference on the American Law Institute's Proposed Restatement of Employment Law, 13 EMPLOYEE RIGHTS AND EMPLOYMENT POLICY JOURNAL 1 (2009).
• LABOR LAW IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORKPLACE, West Publishing Co. (with M. MALIN, R. CORRADA, C. CAMERON AND C. FISK) (2009).
• LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW AND ECONOMICS, Elgar Publishing Co. (with S. HARRIS and O. LOBEL) (2009).
• Men and Women of the Bar: An Empirical Study of the Impact on Gender on Legal Careers, 16 MICH. J OF GENDER & L. 49 (2009) (with M. Galanter, K. Mukhopadhaya, and K. Hull)
• "Old and Making Hay:" The Results of the Pro Bono Institute Firm Survey on the Viability of a "Second Acts" Program to Transition Attorneys to Retirement Through Pro Bono Work, 7 COLUM. J. OF ETHICS IN THE LEGAL PROF. 321 (2009) (with E. Lardent, R. Glazer and K. Ressmeyer).
• The Kid Factor, THE AMERICAN LAWYER (April 2008) at 89 (with M. Galanter, K. Hull and K. Mukhopadhaya).
• Income and Career Satisfaction in the Legal Profession: Survey Data from Indiana Law Graduates , 4 J. OF EMP. LEG. STUD. 939 (2007)(with J. Stake and K. Mukhopadhaya).
• The Changing Face of Collective Representation: The Future of Collective Bargaining, 29th Annual Piper Lecture, Chicago-Kent University, School of Law, U. CHI-KENT L. REV 903 (2007)
• Governance of the Workplace: The Contemporary Regime of Individual Contract, 28 COMP. LABOR L. & POL. J. 313 (2007) (with T. Haley).
• "The Pride of Indiana": An Empirical Study of the Law School Experience and Careers of Indiana University School of Law--Bloomington Alumni, 81 ILJ 1427-78 (2006) (with S. Stake, K. Mukhopadhaya and T. Haley).
• Employment in the New Age of Trade and Technology: Implications for Labor and Employment Law, 76 IND. L.J. 1 (2001).
• The Fruits of Our Labors: An Empirical Study of the Distribution of Income and Job Satisfaction Over the Legal Profession , 49 J. LEGAL EDU. 342 (1999) (with Kaushik Mukhopadhaya).
• A Bargaining Analysis of American Labor Law and the Search for Bargaining Equity and Industrial Peace, 91 MICH. L. REV. 419 (1992).
• An Economic Analysis of the Criminal Law as a Preference Shaping Policy, 1990 DUKE L.J. 1.

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