Professor Rick Bales is a faculty member at Ohio Northern University—Claude W. Pettit College of Law, and teaches also at China University of Political Science and Law (Beijing) and Peking University School of Transnational Law (Shenzhen). He teaches a wide variety of labor/employment and ADR courses, Torts, and Civil Procedure. He has published more than 100 scholarly articles and has authored or co-authored 10 books on a variety of topics related to labor/employment/ADR. His most recent articles and presentations focus on the ways artificial intelligence is affecting the workplace. With Jill Gross, he is co-editing the forthcoming book “The Federal Arbitration Act: Successes, Failures, and a Roadmap for Reform”, to be published by Cambridge University Press in spring 2024.

Here are some of his representative publications :

Cambridge Handbook of US Labor Law: Reinventing Labor Law for the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press 2020), co-authored with Charlotte Garden
COVID-Related Labor Arbitration Awards in the United States and Canada: A Survey and Comparative Analysis, Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2021

The Invisible Web at Work: Artificial Intelligence and Electronic Surveillance in the Workplace, (co-authored with Katheryn Van Wezel Stone), 41 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 1 (2020)