• New Waves of Worker Empowerment (St. Louis University School cof Law) (invited)

  • Ethics and Civility in Workplace Law (College of Labor and Employment Law)

  • Janus and the Weaponizing of the First Amendment (ACS San Diego Chapter) (invited)

  • Police Unions and the Political Power Variable (College of Labor and Employment Lawyers) (invited)

  • Justice Gorsuch in Bostock: New Wine in Old Bottles? (UNLV Law) (invited)

  • Keynote Speaker, National Center for Collective Bargaining in Higher Education Regional Meeting (invited)

  • The Thirteenth Amendment and Minimum Wages, Cornell University School of Industrial Labor Relations (invited)

  • Clean Slate for Worker Power Project, Harvard Law School (invited)

  • Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., Program on the Future of the Middle Class (invited)

  • Social Movements and the Law, Texas A&M University School of Law (invited)

  • Design Thinking in Legal Education (SEALS 2019) (invited)

  • The Academic Workplace, ABA Associate Deans Conference “Building the Skills Sets of the Associate Dean,” June 28, 2019 (invited)

  • New Law Teachers Workshop, AALS, January 5, 2019 (invited)

  • ACS/SALT Cover Workshop, “Reforming the Supreme Court,” New Orleans, Jan. 3, 2019 (invited)

  • Inaugural Paul Mitchell Keynote Labor Law, Peggy Browning Fund Conference, Oct. 12, 2018 (invited)

  • The Growing Gap Between Free Trade and Free Migration, World Congress XIII. International Society of Labour and Social Security Law, Torino, IT, Sept. 5, 2018

  • The Future of Organized Labor, California Issues Forum (State Legislators Caucus Meeting), La Jolla CA Dec. 12, 2017 (invited)

  • Right to Work Laws: Ideology & Impact, National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, Long Beach, CA, Dec. 2, 2017 (invited)

  • June 2016: Law and Society Association Annual Meeting to present a paper entitled "Global Minimum Wages: A Way out of the Trade-Labor Conundrum?" He will also co-chair the activities of the Collaborative Research Network (CRN08) on Labor Rights. New Orleans, LA

  • April 2016: Indiana University, Maurer School of Law, Bloomington IN 

  • April 2016: Friedrichs v. CTA: What the Future May Bring with Cynthia Estlund, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law, Charlotte Garden, Associate Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law and Ruben Garcia, Professor of Law, William S. Boyd School of Law with moderator Frederick P. Schaffer, General Counsel and Senior Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs, City University of New York. New York, NY

  • February 2016: "Anti-Poverty Alternatives to the Minimum Wage" at the Seattle University School of Law Conference on Poverty Law and Academic Activism. Seattle, WA

  • November 2015: Professor Ruben Garcia, in his capacity as Co-President of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT), spoke on the opening plenary of SALT's BA to JD Pipeline Program at Villanova University School of Law, entitled "Pipeline to the Legal Profession: Overcoming Barriers to Entry" on November 13, 2015. Professor Garcia will also speak on a concurrent panel in the Program, entitled "Who Is in the Courtroom? Exploring Affirmative Action and Other Confined Tools in a Post Schuette/Fisher World.", Philadelphia, PA