Matthew W. Finkin

Research Professor
Swanlund Endowed Chair Emeritus
Center for Advanced Study Professor Emeritus

About

Matthew Finkin treats issues in domestic and comparative labor law and in higher education law. He is the author or editor, singly or in collaboration, of twelve books including For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom (2009) (with Robert Post), the treatise Privacy in Employment Law (editions from 1995 to the present), the casebook Cox, Bok, & Gorman’s Labor Law (editions from 1991 to the present), and a substantial body of periodical writing.

His awards include the Bob Hepple Award from the International Labor Law Research Network (2021), honorary doctorates from the University of Padua, Italy (2022), the University of Trier, Germany (2012), and the University of Athens, Greece (2011), the rank of Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques conferred by the government of France (2015), and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Research Prize (1995). From 1999 to 2024 he edited the Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal with Professor Sanford Jacoby of UCLA. He serves on the editorial boards of labor law periodicals in Canada, Belgium, and Germany.

Professor Finkin has been a Fulbright Professor at Münster University, a German Marshall Fund Lecturer at Konstanz University, a Resident Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Nantes, France, a visiting professor at Bocconi University, Milan, and at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel. His work has been translated into seven languages.

In addition to his academic work, Professor Finkin is active as a labor arbitrator. He was elected to the National Academy of Arbitrators and serves on several standing arbitral panels in the public and private sectors. In 2020, he was given the Susan C. Eaton Outstanding Scholar-Practitioner Award by the Labor and Employment Relations Association.

Education

LLM Yale University
LLB New York University
AB Ohio Wesleyan University

Areas of Expertise

Comparative Labor Law
Employee Rights
Labor Law

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