PUBLIC SECTOR LABOR RELATIONS LAW SEMINAR

EDPOL/ELPA/LEGALST 542

Examines the legal issues related to the policy decisions and delivery of public education (elementary and secondary) in the United States. Learn how law impacts both curriculum development and curricular delivery, explore current legal controversies, constitutional issues, and learn about legal reasoning and analysis. Examines how both legislation and litigation affects public education. Particular attention is paid to law as public policy and the analysis of the same.

ELPA 840

Legal aspects of public K-12 education. Legal structure; employee rights; employee discipline; curriculum; students' rights; student discipline, special education; torts; contracts, religion. Impact of federal and state constitutions, statutes, and court decisions on education.

MHR 612

Labor-management relations at the firm level including its evolution, characteristics and contemporary issues. Emphasis on analysis of the labor-management relationship through reference to theory and research on collective action, bargaining behavior and conflict resolution.

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 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.