Katherine Van Wezel Stone, a Cornell professor with a joint appointment in the School of Industrial Relations (ILR) and Cornell Law School, is the Anne Evans Estabrook Distinguished Lecturer in Conflict Resolution this spring. Her talk is titled "From Herbert Hoover to Robert Gilmore: A History of the Federal Arbitration Act" and will take place Friday, April 16, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in 115 Ives Hall.
Stone's area of expertise is labor law, with a focus on employee rights and protections, collective bargaining, and employment contracts and corporate change. A practicing attorney in New York City before she entered academia, Stone earned her B.A. degree in 1970 and a J.D. in 1979, both from Harvard. At Cornell she teaches courses in labor law and policy, contracts, arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.
She is the author of the forthcoming casebook Private Justice: The Law of Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution (Foundation Press) and has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and chapters in labor law books, among them: "Labor Markets, Employment Contracts and Corporate Change," in Corporate Accountability and Control (Oxford University Press, 1993); and "The Prospects for Transnational Labor Regulation: Reconciling Globalization and Labor Rights in the EU and NAFTA," in Advancing Labour Law Theory in the Global Economy (Elsevier Science Publishers, 1998).
The Estabrook Distinguished Lectureship in Conflict Resolution was established in 1998 by Anne Evans Estabrook and is funded through the honoree's contributions to the ILR School. The series supports the commitment of ILR to conflict resolution and brings distinguished scholars to campus to discuss their research. The talks are sponsored by the Institute for Conflict Resolution and Cornell's ILR School.
Estabrook, who earned a B.S. degree in ILR in 1965 and an MBA in 1966, both from Cornell, is a member of the Cornell Board of Trustees and its Academic Advisory, Real Estate and Cultural Affairs committees. In 1997 she became the ILR School's first recipient of the Jerome Alpern Award for distinguished service. She is the owner of Elberon Development Co., a New Jersey business that develops, leases and manages industrial and commercial real estate.
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