Newton,MA--William B. Gould, professor emeritus at Stanford Law School, will be speaking about his new book Bargaining with Baseball: Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil at an event sponsored by the BC Sports and Entertainment Law Society on April 12th at 5:00 pm.

Gould received his B.A. from the University of Rhode Island, L.L.B. from Cornell University Law School, and completed his Graduate Study at London School of Economics. His areas of expertise are Comparitive Law, Labor and Employment Law, and Sports and Entertainment Law.

Gould was a member of the Council of the Dministrative Conference of the United states from 1994-1996 and chariman of the National Relations Board from 1994-1998. He has also been a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators since 1970 and has arbitrated and mediated more than 200 labor disputes. Gould has been an influential voice on worker-management relations for over forty years and has served as Independent Monitor for GirstGroup America, addressing freedom of association complaints from 2008-2011.

Gould's latest book, Bargaining with Baseball: Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil, gives his perspective on the past, present and future of major league baseball by combining his work as a Stanford University law professor, a lifelong devoted fan of the Boston Red Sox, and a former chariman of the National Labor Relations Board. Gould shares his true love of the sport through personal anecdotes of a childhood growing up in New Jersey rooting for his beloved Red Sox as effortlessly as he describes the legal interpretations of cases and negotiations that have forever changed the innocence of the great American pastime.

The event will take place in the East Wing room 200. For more information, please contact Franklin Triffletti at trifflef@bc.edu.