The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Labor Relations and Employment Law has honored University of Wisconsin Law School Professor James E. Jones, Jr., for his career of service to the field of labor and employment law. 

Jones, who is Nathan P. Feinsinger Professor of Labor Law, Emeritus, is a graduate of the UW Law School, Class of 1956. He returned to Wisconsin to teach in 1969, after a career of prominent achievement at the U.S. Department of Labor.

Vicki Schultz, the Ford Foundation Professor of Law at Yale University, who was 2004 Chair of the Labor and Employment Law Section, wrote and read a tribute to Jones, beginning by stating, "There is so much to say about this brilliant and big-hearted man; I can’t even begin to cover his many achievements in the time available."

Schultz worked closely with Jones when she was an assistant professor at the UW Law School.  Part of her tribute detailed the ways in which  Jones was an important mentor to her.

In her tribute, Schultz discussed, in turn, Jones’s leading role in developing affirmative action law, his work in creating the field of employment discrimination law, his service to the university and the larger society, and his contribution as "a model mentor and colleague."

The entire nine-page text of Schultz’s speech honoring Jones has been published in the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, Volume 9, Number 2 (2005).

Submitted by on June 6, 2006

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