Beyond the FAA: Arbitration Procedure, Practice, and Policy in Historical Perspective
Keynote: Professor James Oldham St. Thomas More Professor of Law and Legal History Georgetown University Law Center Washington, D.C.
In addition to teaching courses at the Law Center, Professor Oldham does archival research on English legal history. His major work is The Mansfield Manuscripts and the Growth of English Law in the Eighteenth Century, two volumes, published by the University of North Carolina Press as part of the Studies in Legal History Series sponsored by the American Society for Legal History. An updated one-volume abridgement of this work, English Common Law in the Age of Mansfield, was published by UNC Press in 2004. Professor Oldham is also the author of Trial by Jury: The Seventh Amendment and Anglo-American Special Juries, published by New York University Press. And in 2013, his book, Case-Notes of Sir Soulden Lawrence 1787-1800, was published by the Selden Society, London, as its main series volume 128.
Professor Oldham teaches the first-year course on Contracts and seminars on English Legal History and Labor Arbitration. In practice before coming to Georgetown, he specialized in labor law with the Denver firm of Sherman and Howard, and now serves as a labor arbitrator on several permanent panels. He is currently the Neutral Discipline Arbitrator for the National Hockey League and the NHL Players Association; he also serves as a salary arbitrator for Major League Baseball and as a member of an Appeals Panel for the National Football League and the NFL Players Association. During 2013-14 he was president of the National Academy of Arbitrators, an honorary professional organization of approximately 650 labor and employment arbitrators practicing in the United States and Canada.