Eric M. Fink
Elon University School of
Law
Associate Professor of
Law, 2007-present
- Tenure awarded 2012
- Jennings Professor and Emerging Scholar, 2010-2012
Teaching 2023-24
Other Courses Taught
- Administrative Law
- Business Associations
- Cause Lawyering
- Consumer Protection
- Labor Law
- Socio-Legal Perspectives
Publications
Journal Articles
“Just When I
Thought I was Out …”: Post-Employment Repayment Obligations, with
Stuart Lichten, 25 Washington & Lee Journal of Civil Rights
& Social Justice 51 (2018)
Union
Organizing & Collective Bargaining for Incarcerated Workers, 52
Idaho Law Review 953 (2016)
Sewer
Syndicalism: Worker Control in Public Services, 14 Nevada Law
Journal 444 (2014)
No Money,
Mo’ Problems: Why Unpaid Law Firm Internships Are Illegal and
Unethical, 47 University of San Francisco Law Review 435
(2013)
The Virtual
Construction of Legality: “Griefing” and Normative Order in Second
Life, 21 Journal of Law, Information, and Science 89
(2011)
Law School
and The Web of Group Affiliation: Socializing, Socialization, and Social
Network Site Use Among Law Students, 27 John Marshall Journal of
Computer and Information Law 325 (2010)
Liars and
Terrorists and Judges, Oh My: Moral Panic and the Symbolic Politics of
Appellate Review in Asylum Cases, 83 Notre Dame Law Review
2019 (2008); reprinted in 29 Immigration and Nationality Law
Review 45 (2008); cited in Djadjou v. Holder, 662 F.3d 265 (4th
Cir. 2011) and Zuh v. Mukasey, 547 F.3d 504, 513 (4th Cir. 2008)
Post-Realism, or
the Jurisprudential Logic of Late Capitalism: A Socio-Legal Analysis of
the Rise and Diffusion of Law and Economics, 55 Hastings Law
Journal 931 (2004)
Book Note, The Caribbean: New Dynamics in Trade and Political
Economy, 28 NYU Journal of International Law and Politics 644
(1996)
Chapters, Reports, &
Other Publications
Federal
Student Loan Servicing: Contract Problems and Public Solutions, with
Roland Zullo, Jobs With Justice Education Fund (2014)
Union and Employee Access to Employer E-mail Systems Under Federal
Labor Law, with Stuart W. Davidson, in The CyberUnion Handbook:
Transforming Labor Through Computer Technology (A. Shostak, ed.,
2002)
Contributing Editor, The Developing Labor Law (P. Hardin,
ed., 4th ed. 2001)
Conference Presentations
Southeastern
Academy of Legal Studies in Business
Annual Meeting
- The Economic & Social Impact of North Carolina HB2 (November
2016)
Stony
Brook University, Center for Study of Working Class Life
How Class Works Conference
- Police Union Contracts & Police Violence Against Civilians (June
2016)
University
of Idaho School of Law, Idaho Law Review
Annual Symposium
- Union Organizing & Collective Bargaining for Incarcerated
Workers (April 2016)
ABA Section of International
Law
Spring Meeting
- Unpaid Law Student Internships: Legal & Ethical Issues (April
2014)
UNLV Boyd School of
Law, Nevada Law Journal
Workplace & Democracy
Symposium
- Worker Self-Management in Public Services (February 2012)
International
Institute for the Sociology of Law
Social Economy Conference
- Worker Self-Management in Public Services (July 2011)
Southeastern
Association of Law Schools
Annual Meeting
- Panel on Internet Culture and the Law (July 2011)
- Legal Consciousness in the Second Life Virtual World (August
2010)
- Panel on Academic Legal Blogs in Scholarship and Teaching (August
2009)
Law and Society Association
Annual Meeting
- Legal Consciousness in the Second Life Virtual World (May 2010)
Public Talks & Workshops
Incarcerated Worker
Organizing Project
- Union Organizing for Incarcerated Workers: Legal Obstacles and
Opportunities (September 2023)
National Society
for Experiential Education
National and Regional
Workshops
- Legal Issues in Experiential Learning (2010-2019)
UNC Greeensboro
Alpha Kappa Delta
(Sociology Honors Society)
- Sociology in Legal Practice and Legal Scholarship (April 21,
2017)
Gamma Theta
Upsilon (Geography Honors Society)
- The Place of Place in Law: Law and Geography (April 24, 2008)
Elon Law School
National Lawyers Guild
- Mass Incarceration & Prison Labor (February 21, 2017)
-
Harris, Friedrichs, and the Implications for Union
Organizing November 23, 2015)
- Corporations and Campaign Finance (September 20, 2012)
-
Citizens United, Corporations, and Democracy (July 18,
2012)
Federalist Society
- Pros and Cons of a Minimum Wage Increase (November 16, 2016)
Rockingham County Democratic
Party
Annual Convention
- Keynote Address: Taking Democracy Seriously (April 8, 2017)
African-American Caucus
- Voting Rights in North Carolina (February 18, 2017)
Open Government
Coalition/Sunshine Center
- NC Open Government Law: A Guide for Public Officials (October 22,
2009)
- Forum on NC Public Records Law (March 20, 2008)
State Employees
Association of North Carolina
- Public Employee Unions and Collective Bargaining (October 17,
2009)
- The Labor Movement and Labor Law in 2009 (September 8, 2009)
NC/SC Labor and Employment
Law
Annual Meeting
- Family Responsibility Accommodation and Discrimination (October, 18,
2008)
Past Teaching Experience
Stanford Law School, Palo
Alto, CA
Lecturer in Law, 2004-2006
- Legal Research and Writing
St. Joseph’s
University/Comey Institute, Philadelphia, PA
Instructor, 1997-2003
- Labor Law; Negotiations; Arbitration; History and Sociology of the
U.S. Labor Movement
Anglo-American
College, Prague, Czech Republic
Lecturer, February- October
1992
- Introduction to Sociology; Economic Sociology; Sociology of Law
Legal Practice
Leonard Carder,
LLP, Oakland and San Francisco, CA
Associate, 2006-2007
Eckert
Seamans Cherin and Mellott, Philadelphia, PA
Associate, 2002-2004
Willig, Williams
and Davidson, Philadelphia, PA
Associate, 1997-2002
Education
New York
University School of Law, New York, NY
J.D., magna cum laude, 1997
- Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow
- Journal of International Law and Politics, Symposium Editor
- Order of the Coif
University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
Doctoral Student in
Sociology (ABD), 1987-1992
- Special Fields: Organizations (honors); Economic Sociology
London School of
Economics, London, England
M.Sc., Sociology, 1985
- Thesis: Policing and Riots in the U.S. and U.K.
The Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, MD
B.A., Sociology, 1984
Professional Associations
Law and Society Association
Labor Research & Action Network
Labor & Working Class History Association
Working Class Studies Association
North Carolina Bar Association
NC State Bar Ethics Committee, Advisory Member (2011-2013)
Bar Admissions
State
California (Inactive)
Pennsylvania (Retired Status)
Federal
Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Eastern District of
Pennsylvania
Middle District of Pennsylvania