Join Professor Lopez as he interviews legal labor law giant William Gould IV as they discuss his memoir "Those Who Travail and Are Heavy Laden: Memoir of a Labor Lawyer," a path that takes him to from New England, as the descendant of runaway slaves, to become the first Black law professor at Stanford Law School and the Chair of the National Labor Relations Board - along the way working to ensure organized labor integrated Black workers, working with the United Auto Workers, developing a lifelong friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg and mediating the longest strike in major league baseball history. On the way, he explains how the law impacts March Madness, the NCAA basketball tournament and his lifelong love affair with the Boston Celtics and Boston Red Sox.

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