EMPLOYMENT LAW
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.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Declared in Law JD Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize and understand key doctrines and concepts rooted in common law, statutes, regulations, policy, and customs that govern the relationship between individual employees and their employers Audience: Graduate 2. Develop a facility for interpreting these doctrines and concepts and applying them to realistic scenarios Audience: Graduate 3. Identify and discuss key debates regarding the virtues and limits of these doctrines and concepts as means of regulating the employment relationship Audience: Graduate 4. Discuss the history and contemplate the future of law and policy in this realm Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize and understand key doctrines and concepts rooted in common law, statutes, regulations, policy, and customs that govern the relationship between individual employees and their employers Audience: Graduate 2. Develop a facility for interpreting these doctrines and concepts and applying them to realistic scenarios Audience: Graduate 3. Identify and discuss key debates regarding the virtues and limits of these doctrines and concepts as means of regulating the employment relationship Audience: Graduate 4. Discuss the history and contemplate the future of law and policy in this realm Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027