Alvin L Goldman

Alvin L. Goldman received his AB from Columbia University in 1959 and his LLB from New York University in 1962. After practicing law in New York City, specializing in labor relations, he began full-time teaching at the University of Kentuck in 1965 and was granted emeritus status in 2008.

Prof. Goldman served as Professor in Residence to National Labor Relations Board Member Sam Zagoria during the 1967-68 academic year, was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Labor Law, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium, in 1973, and was Visiting Professor at the School of Law, University of California-Davis, in the 1976-1977 academic year. In addition, he is a labor arbitrator.

Professor Goldman is a member and a former Chair of the Labor Law Group Trust for which he prepared Processes for Conflict Resolution (BNA 1972) and coauthored Legislation Protecting the Individual Employee (BNA 1982 with R. Covington), and Legal Protection for the Individual Employee (West 1989, 1996, 2002 with M. Finkin, C. Summers and K. Dau-Schmidt). He also authored Settling for More: Mastering Negotiating Strategies and Techniques (BNA 1991) and The Supreme Court and Labor-Management Relations Law (D.C. Heath 1976), coauthored Negotiation: Theory and Practice (Kluwer Law International, 2003 with J. Rojot), and has written chapters for several books including Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Industrialized Market Economies (Kluwer). He is US co-reporter for International Labour Law Reports (Martinus Nijhoff) and is past Chair of the US Branch, International Society for Labor Law and Social Security.