Professor Michael Yelnosky’s extensive background in Employment Law serves as an invaluable resource for both students and scholars alike.  Active in the legal community, Professor Yelnosky recently served as a neutral arbitrator in the case RIBCO v. State of Rhode Island.  As President of the Rhode Island chapter of the Labor and Employment Relations Association, Professor Yelnosky moderated a program on the Roberts’s Court’s treatment of labor and employment law issues.   He also made a presentation to federal trial and appellate court judges as a part of a workshop on Labor and Employment law sponsored by the Institute for Judicial Administration and the Center for Labor and Employment Law at NYU.

Professor Yelnosky is a popular teacher of Civil Procedure, Employment Law and Employment Discrimination Law at RWU.  Additionally, Professor Yelnosky serves as a Research Fellow for NYU’s Center for Labor and Employment Law.  He served as a law clerk for the Honorable Edmund V. Ludwig in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and worked for the law firms Mellon, Webster & Mellon and Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius.  Professor Yelnosky has taught at Villanova, Seton Hall and Chicago-Kent schools of law.  He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.