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Spring 2009
Law No.: LAW4799
Sched. No.: 404b4
Employment Law: Contracts, Torts, And Statutes
Section 0001
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Verkerke, J



Administrative Information:

Days, Times (Room):M W, 0830-0950 (SL 298)
Credits:3Type:Lecture
Capacity:39 **This information is current as of 09/30/2008 02:03:27 AM**
Current Enrollment:39 **This information is current as of 09/30/2008 02:03:27 AM**

Course Description:

Union membership as a proportion of total employment has declined for several decades. As a result, workers increasingly must look to federal, state, and local law rather than to collective bargaining agreements to determine their rights and obligations as employees. Similarly, a lawyer advising a company on employment matters today is likely to face many more questions involving employer and worker rights under one of these myriad regulatory regimes than issues arising under federal labor law. In contrast to the traditional labor law course, which focuses on collective bargaining, this course and a companion offering on Employment Law: Health & Safety offer students an introduction to the diverse body of law that governs the individual employment relationship. Both courses examine a selection of the important issues that employment lawyers face in practice. Although course coverage varies somewhat from year to year, this course focuses on topics including contract and tort protections against discharge, trade secrets and non-competition clauses, ERISA, vicarious liability, alternative dispute resolution, and wage and hour laws such as the FLSA.

The graded work for this course will differ substantially from the conventional three-hour essay examination. Instead, students will complete three short closed-book comprehension quizzes, three 500-word take-home essay questions, and a 1000-word position paper.

MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE with: Employment Law
COURSE REQUIREMENT: Three closed-book comprehension quizzes, three 500-word take-home essay questions, and a 1000-word position paper

Mutually Exclusive with: Employment Law