Martin H. Malin Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Law and the Workplace

Professor Malin writes and teaches primarily in the areas of labor and employment law. He is the author of Individual Rights Within the Union and co-author of The Legal Environment of Business: Public Law and Regulation.

Professor Malin is a past president of the Chicago chapter of the Industrial Relations Research Association and a past chair of the Association of American Law Schools Labor Law Section. He is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators and the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, serves on a number of state and national arbitration panels, and is a hearing officer for the Chicago Commission on Human Rights. During 1984 and 1985 he served as consultant to the Illinois State, Local and Educational Labor Relations Boards and drafted the Boards’ regulations implementing the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act and the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act.

Professor Malin received his bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and his law degree from George Washington University, where he was editor of the George Washington Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. After graduation, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert E. DeMascio, United States District Judge, Eastern District of Michigan. He taught at Ohio State University before joining the Chicago-Kent faculty in 1980.