Interdisciplinary, topical or experimental courses to be approved by the faculty and Dean of the College of Law.

Interdisciplinary, topical or experimental courses to be approved by the faculty and Dean of the College of Law.

Interdisciplinary, topical or experimental courses to be approved by the faculty and Dean of the College of Law.

Interdisciplinary, topical or experimental courses to be approved by the faculty and Dean of the College of Law.

History, organization, and structure of American labor unions; obligations and prerogatives of employers; questions of representation; privileges and obligations of unions; collective bargaining and dispute settlement.

Contracts to marry; the marriage status; annulment, divorce and separation; parent and child; infants and incompetent persons.

Establishment of administrative tribunals, limits on discretion. Notice and hearing, orders, methods of judicial relief, scope of judicial review.

This course looks comprehensively at the law governing the political process and democratic self-government. Topics covered include legislative redistricting, campaign financing laws, the regulation of political parties, the Voting Rights Act, and 'direct democracy' initiatives (such as binding public referendums). The course also addresses the alternative electoral structures being explored by many US cities, such as proportionate representation, cumulative voting and transferable vote systems. Students interested in law, government and democratic theory are encouraged to enroll.

This course provides an introduction to legislation and the legislative process, with an emphasis on federal legislation. Among the subjects considered are theories of representation by the legislature, includes one person-one vote; legal process theory and the roles that judicial review and separation of powers play in that theory; and statutory construction, including the rules and canons of statutory construction and the use of legislative history in interpreting statutes.

The body of law structuring economic organization and activities in a free enterprise national system. Major matters considered in the course are government creation and regulation of the legal monopolies, controls over collaborative conduct of competing economic entities, and legal controls over the vertical distributive relationship of suppliers, dealers, and customers.