Course Catalog

This course explores the legal framework governing coordinated action by workers. Broadly speaking, the topics we study are: 1) the regulation of union organizing, and of various other forms of worker collective action and worker protest; 2) the public recognition of labor organizations and subsequent regulation of the collective bargaining relationship. We look at the development of the law, its current operation, and where it may go. We focus mainly on the National Labor Relations Act, related case-law and agency decisions. We may also consider historical and comparative perspectives on labor law, emerging forms of worker organization and union strategies outside the scope of the NLRA, interaction with other areas of law and and with changing business models, labor law reform proposals, and/or collective worker participation in politics. While there are no formal prerequisites, many students may find either Administrative Law or Legislation & Regulation helpful (whether taken beforehand or concurrently).

• Type: Upper Class

This course explores the legal framework governing coordinated action by workers. Broadly speaking, the topics we study are: 1) the regulation of union organizing, and of various other forms of worker collective action and worker protest; 2) the public recognition of labor organizations and subsequent regulation of the collective bargaining relationship. We look at the development of the law, its current operation, and where it may go. We focus mainly on the National Labor Relations Act, related case-law and agency decisions. We may also consider historical and comparative perspectives on labor law, emerging forms of worker organization and union strategies outside the scope of the NLRA, interaction with other areas of law and and with changing business models, labor law reform proposals, and/or collective worker participation in politics. While there are no formal prerequisites, many students may find either Administrative Law or Legislation & Regulation helpful (whether taken beforehand or concurrently).

• Type: Upper Class

This course explores the legal framework governing coordinated action by workers. Broadly speaking, the topics we study are: 1) the regulation of union organizing, and of various other forms of worker collective action and worker protest; 2) the public recognition of labor organizations and subsequent regulation of the collective bargaining relationship. We look at the development of the law, its current operation, and where it may go. We focus mainly on the National Labor Relations Act, related case-law and agency decisions. We may also consider historical and comparative perspectives on labor law, emerging forms of worker organization and union strategies outside the scope of the NLRA, interaction with other areas of law and and with changing business models, labor law reform proposals, and/or collective worker participation in politics. While there are no formal prerequisites, many students may find either Administrative Law or Legislation & Regulation helpful (whether taken beforehand or concurrently).

• Type: Upper Class

To mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in fall 2021, this seminar will engage students in a critical assessment of the impacts of those attacks and their aftermath on a range of areas of international law. These areas include the international law on terrorism, on the treatment of victims of terrorism, on the use of force, on human rights, on fundamentalism and extremism, and on the principle of non-discrimination. Particular attention will be paid to the situation in Afghanistan in light of the planned U.S. withdrawal on the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, and the human rights situation on the ground in the country. How did 9/11 and the responses to it change international law? What can or should be done about these consequences today?

• Type: Seminar