West Virginia University College of Law professors Robert M. Bastress and Anne Marie Lofaso have been elected Fellows of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.
Election as a fellow is the CLEL’s highest recognition of outstanding service and performance in labor and employment law. There are currently just 12 fellows in West Virginia.
Bastress and Lofaso will be inducted at the 20th Installation of Fellows on Nov. 7 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, coinciding with the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law conference.
Bastress is the John W. Fisher II Professor of Law and has taught at WVU since 1978, specializing in constitutional law and employment discrimination. He is the author of numerous law articles and books including Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiating: Skills for Effective Lawyering (Little Brown & Co. Law & Business, 1990, with Joseph Harbaugh) and The West Virginia State Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Lofaso joined the faculty at the WVU College of Law in 2007 and specializes in labor and employment law. From 2011-15, she served as the college’s associate dean for faculty research and development and she is currently the first Leadership Research Fellow in the Arts and Humanities at the WVU Research Office.
In spring 2016, Lofaso will be the Keeley Visiting Fellow at Wadham College, University of Oxford, while conducting research on her next book, The Once and Future Worker. She is the author of several law review articles and books including What We Owe Our Miners (Harvard Law and Policy Review) and Modern Labor Law in the Private and Public Sectors (Lexis/Nexis, 2013).
Based in Annapolis, Maryland, the CLEL was founded in 1995 on the 60th anniversary of the National Labor Relations Board. It has more than 1,300 members in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Canada. CLEL has evolved into an intellectual and practical resource for recognizing those who have distinguished themselves as leaders in the field, and for building and delivering knowledge to support the profession.
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