Dr. E. Patrick McDermott visited the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University in Iași from May 14 – 15. He delivered two lectures on the subject of Negotiation and attended a meeting of the Iași Chamber of Commerce. At the Chamber of Commerce he met with some local business owners and discussed their business strategies and issues. He is continuing to help one entrepreneur introduce his energy saving invention in the U.S. Dr. McDermott also met with faculty to discuss mutual research interests and discussed the Fulbright Program with interested faculty.

On May 21-22, Dr. McDermott visited the Babeș-Bolyai University School of Law. He met with a class of undergraduate labor law students and Masters of Law students and lectured on the topic of the U.S. employment law model and the rise of the “gig economy”. The following day he delivered a lecture on the topic of “Labor Law Today and How Negotiation is Taught and Implemented in the U.S.”