David E. Feller Memorial Labor Law Lectureship

To honor the memory of David E. Feller, the well-known labor law professor and advocate who died in 2003, the David E. Feller Memorial Labor Law Lectureship will annually present a scholar or practitioner to speak about his or her work in the field of labor law. The primary goal of the Lectureship is to bring attention to the study and practice of American labor law and to spur the academic exchange of ideas about its contemporary significance.

2008 Lecture

"How A Low Wage Economy with Weak Labor Laws Brought Us the Mortgage Credit Crisis"

AFL-CIO Associate General Counsel Damon Silvers will deliver the 2008 Feller Memorial Labor Law Lecture on Wednesday, April 2, 2008, at 7:00 PM at Boalt Hall School of Law. A reception will follow the lecture.

Mr. Silvers’ work focuses on bankruptcy, corporate governance, and pension and general business law issues.  Mr. Silvers led the AFL-CIO legal team that won severance payments for laid off Enron and WorldCom workers.  He is  a member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Standing Advisory Group and the Financial Accounting Standards Board User Advisory Council.  He is also a member of the United States Treasury Department Investor’s Practice Committee of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets and is the Chair of the Competition Subcommittee of the United States Treasury Department Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession.  For more information about Mr. Silvers, please click here.

MCLE credit is available for attending the event.

To RSVP, please email Feller Lecture Editor Ellie Hoecker at fellerlecture@gmail.com.

Donations
Generous donations from Professor Feller’s family, the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, practitioners, scholars, and Berkeley alumni, will create a self-sustaining endowment to fund the Lectureship for years to come. To help us found the endowment and ensure that the Lectureship will honor the work and life of Professor Feller, you can arrange to make your donation at the Boalt Hall Alumni Gift Page.

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Remember to insert the amount of your gift in the “Other” field and to note in the “Special Instruction” field that you would like your gift directed to the David E. Feller Memorial Labor Law Fund.

About David E. Feller
David E. Feller was a renowned labor law expert and professor emeritus of Boalt Hall when he passed away in 2003. He was a prominent member of the Boalt faculty for over 35 years and a revered practitioner in the field of labor law for nearly two decades prior to coming to Boalt. Professor Feller’s distinguished career included serving as general counsel to the United Steelworkers and the Industrial Union Department of the AFL-CIO, arguing several important cases before the United States Supreme Court, and participating significantly in ground-breaking civil rights litigation in the 1950s.

For more on the life and career of David Feller, please click here.