Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, J.D., Ph.D.
(Distinguished Professor/Endowed Chair)

Indiana University–Bloomington (IN)

labor law, labor and employment law, law and economics, legal profession, empirical legal studies

About Me

Professor Dau-Schmidt is a nationally recognized teacher and scholar in labor and employment law and the economic analysis of legal problems.

His innovative teaching methods using classroom simulations have been widely featured in publications including the Christian Science Monitor, Chronicle of Higher Education, the Chicago Sun-Times, the National Jurist, and the Indiana Daily Student. In 2003 he was awarded the Leon H. Wallace Award, Indiana Law's top teaching prize, and IU's Sylvia Bowman Award for Teaching Excellence. He received the Excellence in Education Award of the Industrial Relations Research Association in 2004.

He is author of seven books and numerous articles on labor and employment law and the economic analysis of law, and he frequently presents papers at academic conferences and law schools across the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. In 1990 he received the Scholarly Paper Award from the Association of American Law Schools for his work on the economic analysis of the criminal law as a preference-shaping policy.

Dau-Schmidt is involved in faculty governance as an elected member of the Bloomington Faculty Council and a faculty representative on the Athletics Committee. Dau-Schmidt has also been active in law school administration, serving as the Associate Dean of Faculty Research. He was also the Chair or Co-Chair of the law school's Center for Law, Society and Culture and has been an active participant in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) and IU leadership programs.

Involved in several national academic associations, Dau-Schmidt was elected to the National Council of the American Association of University Professors and appointed to serve on the executive and litigation committees of that organization. He is the past chair of the Labor Law Group and has chaired the Association of American Law School sections on the Economic Analysis of Law and Socio-Economics. In addition, he has served in various capacities on the executive committee of the AALS section on Labor and Employment Law and the Industrial Relations Research Association's section on Labor and Employment Law. He is also a founder of the Midwest Law and Economics Association.

Professor Dau-Schmidt has been fortunate enough to be invited to teach at various European and Asian universities, including: Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, Germany; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen, Germany; Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) in Paris, France and Taiwan National University in Taipei, Taiwan. He is also an affiliated faculty member with Peking University's School of Transnational Law in Shenzen, China.

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Publications

Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Martin H. Malin, Roberto L. Corrada, Christopher David Ruiz Cameron & Catherine L. Fisk, “Labor Law in the Contemporary Workplace 3d Ed,” West Publishing Co., 2019. Pages 1200
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Matthew W. Finkin, Ruben J. Garcia, and Jason R. Bent , “Legal Protection for The Individual Employee 6th Ed.,” West Publishing Co., 2021. Pages 1200
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt and Kaushik Mukhopadhaya, “The Fruits of Our Labors: An Empirical Study of the Distribution of Income and Job Satisfaction over the Legal Profession,” 49 J. LEGAL EDU. 342 , 1999. Pages 42
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Seth D. Harris, and Orly Lobel, “Labor and Employment Law and Economics ,” Elgar Publishing Co. , 2009. Pages 768
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt and Thomas S. Ulen, “Law and Economics Anthology,” Anderson Publishing Co., 1998. Pages 584
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, “Employment Security: A Comparative Institutional Debate,” 74 TEX. L. REV. 1645, 1996. Pages 20
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, “The Problem of “Misclassification” or How to define who is an “Employee” Under Protective Legislation in the Information Age, in THE CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK OF U.S. LABOR LAW: REVIVING AMERICAN LABOR FOR A 21ST CENTURY ECONOMY ,” Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pages 22
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, “The Impact of Emerging Information Technologies on the Employment Relationship: New Gigs for Labor and Employment Law,” 2017 U. CHI. LEGAL F. 63-94 , 2017. Pages 31
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, “Labor Law 2.0: The Impact of New Information Technology on the Employment Relationship and the Relevance of the NLRA,” 64 EMORY L. J. 1583-1609 , 2015. Pages 26
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, “Undermining or Promoting Democratic Government? An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Public Sector Collective Bargaining,” 14 NEV. L. J. 414-443 , 2014. Pages 29
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, “The Great Recession, the Resulting Budget Shortfall, the 2010 Elections and the Attack on Public Sector Collective Bargaining in the United States,” 29 HOFSTRA LABOR & EMP. L. J. 407 , 2012. Pages 28
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, “Promoting Employee Voice in the American Economy: A Call for Comprehensive Reform,” 94 MARQUETTE L. REV. 765 , 2011. Pages 38
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt and Todd Dvorak, “Review of Labor and Employment Decisions from the Supreme Court’s 2008-2009 Term,” 25 ABA J. LAB. & EMP. L. 107 , 2010. Pages 38
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Marc Galanter, Kaushik Mukhopadhaya & Kathleen E. Hull, “Men and Women of the Bar: An Empirical Study of the Impact of Gender on Legal Careers,” 16 MICH. J. GENDER & L. 49 , 2009. Pages 80
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt and Arthur Traynor, “Regulating Unions and Collective Bargaining, in LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW AND ECONOMICS ,” Elgar Publishing Co., 2009. Pages 35
Jeffrey E. Stake, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt & Kaushik Mukhopadhaya, “Income and Career Satisfaction in the Legal Profession: Survey Data from Indiana Law Graduates,” 4 J. EMP. LEGAL STUD. 939 , 2007. Pages 40
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, “The Changing Face of Collective Representation: The Future of Collective Bargaining,” 82 U. CHI.-KENT L. REV. 903 , 2007. Pages 35
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt and Timothy A. Haley, “Governance of the Workplace: The Contemporary Regime of Individual Contract,” 28 COMP. LAB. L. & POL. J. 313 , 2007. Pages 40
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Jeffrey E. Stake, Kaushik Mukhopadhaya & Timothy A. Haley, ““The Pride of Indiana”: An Empirical Study of the Law School Experience and Careers of Indiana University School of Law--Bloomington Alumni,” 81 IND. L. J. 1427-78 , 2006. Pages 51
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt and Carmen L. Brun, “Lost in Translation: The Economic Analysis of Law in the United States and Europe,” in WELTINNENRECHT LIBER AMICORUM JOST DELBRÜCK, Veröffentlichungen des Walther- Schücking-Instituts für Internationales Recht an der Universität Kiel, 2006. Pages 38
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, “Employment in the New Age of Trade and Technology: Implications for Labor and Employment Law,” 76 IND. L. J. 1 , 2001. Pages 34
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, “Labor Law and Industrial Peace: A Comparative Analysis of the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan Under the Bargaining Model,” 8 TULANE J. INT’L & COMP. L. 117 , 2000. Pages 35
Joseph C. Gallo, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Joseph L. Craycraft & Charles J. Parker, “The First Century of Department of Justice Antitrust Enforcement,” 17 REV. INDUS. ORG. 75 , 2000. Pages 60
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, “Economics and Sociology: The Prospects for an Interdisciplinary Discourse on Law,” 1997 WIS. L. REV. 389, 1997. Pages 30
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, “An Empirical Study of the Effect of Liquidity and Consumption Commitment Constraints on Intertemporal Labor Supply,” 23 J. ECON. 89, 1997. Pages 28
Joseph C. Gallo, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Joseph L. Craycraft & Charles J. Parker, “Criminal Penalties under the Sherman Act: A Study in Law and Economics,” 16 RES. L. & ECON. 25 , 1994. Pages 45
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, “Meeting the Demands of Workers Into the Twenty-First Century: The Future of Labor and Employment Law,” 68 IND. L. J. 685, 1993. Pages 28
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, “A Bargaining Analysis of American Labor Law and the Search for Bargaining Equity and Industrial Peace,” 91 MICH. L. REV. 419, 1992. Pages 90
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, “Union Security Agreements under the NLRA: the Statute, the Constitution, and the Court's Opinion in Beck,” 27 HARV. J. ON LEGIS. 51, 1990. Pages 98
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, “The Effect of Consumption Commitments and the Liquidity Constraint on Labor Supply,” 18 J. ECON. 49, 1992. Pages 25
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, “ Relaxing Traditional Economic Assumptions and Values: Towards a New Multidisciplinary Discourse on Law,” 42 SYRACUSE L. REV. 181, 1991. Pages 25
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, “An Economic Analysis of the Criminal Law as a Preference Shaping Policy,” 1990 DUKE L.J. 1, 1990. Pages 68
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, “ The Labor Market Transformed: Adapting Labor and Employment Law to the Rise of the Contingent Workforce,” 52 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 879, 1995. Pages 25

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