黑料不打烊 Law Professor Eric Fink has provided public service and commentary recently on matters ranging from the role of local governments in addressing the influence of corporations on public policy formation to the legal ethics of unpaid law firm internships.
On January 21, Yes! Weekly, a news publication of North Carolina’s Triad region, published a .
“The corrosive effect of corporate power on democracy is very much a local concern,” Fink writes. “Unrestricted corporate money distorts the electoral process, including elections for local government bodies like city councils. Unfettered corporate influence distorts public policy, including policy on core matters of local government responsibility like land use, transportation and education. Given the direct and substantial impact of corporate power on local politics and policy, it is absolutely proper for local government representatives to educate themselves and the people they serve, and to speak up in defense of democracy.”
In December, insights from Fink’s scholarship on the legal ethics of unpaid law firm internships (“No Money, Mo’ Problems: Why Unpaid Law Firm Internships are Illegal & Unethical,” forthcoming in the University of San Francisco Law Review) were explored in two online forums and .
In October, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) appointed Fink to be the union’s designated member of the North Carolina Agricultural Arbitration Commission (NCAAC), an entity established to resolve grievances under the union’s collective bargaining agreement with the North Carolina Growers Association.
“This is a very exciting opportunity to participate in a process that extends workplace protection to a particularly vulnerable group of workers,” Fink said.
In September, Fink participated in and .
In August, Fink was quoted in an