EQUAL EMPLOYMENT LAW

LAW 745

Regulation of organization and representation of employees; collective bargaining, and employer and union practices; proceedings under the National Labor Relations Act and related federal statutes and analogous state acts.

ELPA 841

Legal structure of higher education, including historical evolution as well as current legal problems. Attempts to assess the impact of legal decisions, statutes, and regulations upon higher education and to discuss the implications of the interaction of the legal system and university governance for the practicing administrator.

LAW 747

Broadly explores the role of law in policy development and regulation of the individual employment relationship with a focus on hiring and firing, leave, privacy, health and safety, unemployment insurance, and compensation. Content is largely exclusive of questions of discrimination and collective bargaining.

LAW 955

Legal and public policy issues relating to public sector unionism in a multiplicity of jurisdictions, including representation questions, scope of bargaining, limitations on the right to strike, impasse procedures, and grievance arbitration.

ELPA/LEGALST 442

Examines several legal issues confronting students and educators within the U.S. education system with a particular focus on race discrimination. Examines how civil rights laws and constitutional provisions can help create more equitable schooling experiences for students and educators from historically marginalized populations. Identifies pragmatic approaches to the law, and explores issues of the democratic underpinnings of education.