Courses & Faculty

2010 Program Courses

All four courses will be taught by Gonzaga law professors.

All students are expected to enroll in two of the four courses for a maximum of four semester hours of credit.

Comparative Labor and Employment Law

(M, Tu & Thur, 8:30 - 10:30 a.m., 2 credits)

This course will scrutinize the differences between and similarities of national industrial relations systems and the labor laws that govern such systems. It will focus on comparative studies of the forms of employment representation, the law of strikes and lockouts, settlement of disputes over rights, settlement of disputes over interests, collective bargaining, and employee privacy. It will also examine the relationship between employer and employee within the varying political, social, and economic contexts. This course will be taught by Professor Cheryl Beckett.

Comparative Law: Governmental Structure and Civil Rights

(M, Tu & Thur, 10:40 a.m. - 12:40 a.m., 2 credits)

This course examines the constitutional experiences of three nations to determine the impact that constitutional framework and governmental structure have on the development of individual civil rights. This examination will follow two central themes: (1) equal protection, particularly as it relates to race; and (2) the traditional civil liberties of freedom of speech and freedom of and from religion. This course will be taught by Professor James Vache.

International Human Rights

(M, Tu & W, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., 2 credits)

This course is designed as an introduction to the critical concepts in international human rights law in a concurrent historical and contemporary context. The ideological and practical formation of human rights law up to its current structures and legal decisions will be examined. The specific focus on current topics will be determined collaboratively on an on-going basis throughout the session.  This course will be taught by Professor Amy Kelley.

Justice and Society

(M, Tu & Thur, 12:50 p.m. - 2:50 p.m., 2 credits)

What exactly is justice? What does it mean to be committed to “social justice?” What role should law and legal institutions play in making a society just or unjust? This course will examine those broad questions from an historical and philosophical perspective. It will begin by focusing on how Roman law and the civil law tradition attempted to come to grips with those issues. It will then turn to readings from classical, medieval and modern thinkers on that subject.This course will be taught by Professor Dan Morrissey.

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