He started his academic career at Cornell University where he taught collective bargaining for seven years. He has also taught at the Universities of Manitoba and Toronto. His research interests include public sector labor relations and restructuring, collective bargaining, dispute resolution, and industrial conflict. He has published in a wide variety of major journals including the American Economic Review, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Relations Industrielles, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, the Labor Studies Journal, and the Arbitration Yearbook. email: robert.hebdon@mcgill.ca