Michael C. Duff, the grandson of a Harlan County, Kentucky coal miner, has been a law professor since 2006 and currently teaches at the Saint Louis University School of Law. He is a member of the American Law Institute, a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the National Civil Justice Institute, and a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Professor Duff has written on a variety of labor and employment law issues arising under workers’ compensation law, ERISA, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Bankruptcy Code. He is author of a workers’ compensation textbook and co-author of employment and labor law textbooks, each published by Carolina Academic Press. Professor Duff presently teaches courses in Torts, traditional NLRA Labor Law, Workers’ Compensation Law, and Evidence. He has previously taught courses in Administrative Law, Bankruptcy, and Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Workplace. Prior to his career as an academic, Professor Duff spent a decade working as an attorney, adjudicative official, and investigator in two National Labor Relations Board regional offices. Prior to his NLRB experience, Professor Duff worked for two years as an associate attorney in the Maine workers’ compensation firm McTeague, Higbee & MacAdam. Before attending law school, Professor Duff was a blue-collar worker for fifteen years, and was injured on the job several times. Professor Duff’s grandfather died of black lung at the age of 52.