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Professor Oldham Selected as NHL Arbitrator

 

The National Hockey League and the NHL Players Association in January selected James Oldham, St.Thomas More Professor of Law and Legal History, to serve as an independent arbitrator under the organizations’ collective bargaining agreement.
     Oldham, who began teaching at the Law Center in 1970, joined a panel of six other arbitrators who hear and decide on salary disputes between NHL players and their teams. Under the collective bargaining agreement between the NHL and Players Association, arbitration hearings can be held when contract negotiations reach an impasse or other disputes arise.

     Oldham, who before joining Georgetown specialized in labor law with the Denver firm of Sherman & Howard, has been a labor arbitrator since 1972 and continues to serve on several permanent panels. He is currently the permanent umpire for Alcoa and the United Steelworkers of America, is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators, and has served as chair of the Foreign Service Grievance Board at the State Department.
    In addition to labor law, Oldham’s other academic passion is English legal history. Oldham’s work in this area includes his two-volume The Mansfield Manuscripts and the Growth of English Law in the Eighteenth Century, considered a major work on Lord Mansfield, one of England’s greatest jurists.

Revised June 17, 2004 (SPR)