The Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal
is proud to present a live symposium entitled:

Emerging Technology and Employee Privacy

Focusing on the effects of Emerging Technologies, such as the BlackBerry®, RFIDS, GPS, and other tracking technologies in the employment arena. This symposium will compare and examine proposed solutions to privacy concerns, address the prevalent and continuous data theft debacles, and discuss legal responses to this emerging area of the law.

The symposium will feature some of the most prominent employee privacy scholars, practitioners, and policy makers from across the United States. Some of our featured speakers will include Samuel Estreicher, the Dwight D. Opperman Professor of law and director of Labor and Employment Law at the New York University School of Law, and Professor Matthew Finkin, the Albert J. Harno and Edward W. Cleary Chair in Law and Director of the Program in Comparative Labor and Employment Law & Policy at the University of Illinois, College of Law.

The symposium will be held on March 7, 2008 at the Hofstra University School of Law located in Hempstead, New York. Please join us for this exciting program. For registration information, please contact laborsymposium@hofstra.edu. Attendees will receive 7 non-transitional CLE credits at no charge.

For more information on topics to be covered at the symposium and the day's schedule click here. Symposium Agenda (PDF)

Along with the live symposium, the Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal will be publishing a symposium issue to appear in the 25th volume of the Journal. If you would like submit an article for publication in the symposium issue please contact Desiree Busching at laborlaw@hofstra.edu. If you would like to inquire about speaking at the symposium, please contact Daniel Vaillant at laborsymposium@hofstra.edu.