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Theories of political economy that explain policy choices and behavior in energy markets in the U.S. and overseas. Topics include: collective action and public choice; state behavior and sovereignty; international political economy; behavior of complex organizations; monopoly and regulation. Case study applications, such as U.S. policy on ethanol, safety regulation at nuclear power plants, and international collective efforts to manage global warming. Prerequisite: familiarity with energy systems and policies.
Last offered: Winter 2009
LAW 233: Antitrust
Legal and economic concepts of competition and monopoly; policy and judicial interpretations of the Sherman and Clayton acts and their applications to business practices and industrial structure. Ethical considerations.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
LAW 236: Art and the Law
International law and the fate of works of art in wartime. International trade in stolen and illegally exported art and antiquities. Artist rights such as moral right, copyright, and resale right. Artistic freedom and its limits. Artist relationships with dealers, commissions, live-work space, toxic hazards, taxes, estate planning, and legal services . The collector. Counterfeit art. The legal character and obligations of museums, and their trustees, directors, and staff. The National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities.
LAW 238: Administrative Law
Administrative agencies interpret statutes, promulgate regulations, and adjudicate disputes, thereby affecting employment, food and drug safety, the environment, energy markets, telecommunications, and immigration. Surveys the law of the administrative state, considering rationales for delegation to administrative agencies, procedural and substantive constraints of agency decision-making, and the judicial review of agency actions.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
LAW 240A: Discussion (1L): Asian Americans and the Law
This discussion seminar will consider the legal treatment of Asian Americans. We will read materials about the history of citizenship, exclusion, and internment, and discuss contemporary issues affecting the individuals of Asian descent in the American legal system. This discussion seminar will meet four times during the Fall quarter. You will be notified of the meeting times by the instructor. Specific dates, time, and location will also be listed in "Notes" below. Elements used in grading: Attendance and class participation.
Last offered: Autumn 2019
LAW 240B: Discussion (1L): Comparative Approaches to Law and Inequality
In this discussion seminar, we will examine how various countries across Europe and Latin American, as well as the United States, seek to deploy law to promote equality for subordinated groups---including especially racial minorities and women. We will examine how laws seeking to promote racial and gender equality, often developed first in the United States, came to be transplanted elsewhere, and how in the process these were transformed in significant ways. Topics will include anti-discrimination law, harassment law, affirmative action (including but not limited to quotas), and parental leave. How and why did the law change as it was transplanted from one legal system and culture into another? To the extent that different legal systems have adopted different approaches, which is preferable---and according to what metrics? Moreover, to the extent that we prefer an approach deployed elsewhere, what are the chances of adopting some version of it here in the United States (or vice versa)? This discussion seminar will meet four times during the Fall quarter. You will be notified of the meeting times by the instructor. Specific dates, time, and location will also be listed in "Notes" below. Elements used in grading: Attendance and class participation.
Last offered: Autumn 2019
LAW 240C: Discussion (1L): Corporate Social Responsibility
How can a company's managers safeguard the firm's financial value for its shareholders while, at the same time, operating ethically and purposively benefiting other stakeholders, including its employees and the communities in which the firm operates? Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is rooted in the idea that shareholder value is not the only measure of a firm's value and, indeed, that the exclusive pursuit of profits may produce social harms. The seminar will consider a variety of legal issues related to CSR, including: 1. The meaning and measure of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria for corporations. 2. The voluntary or mandatory disclosure of a company's environmental and social harms or risks. 3. When is it legally and ethically appropriate for corporate managers or institutional investors to compromise shareholder value in the pursuit of social and environment goals? 4. Constituency statutes and benefit corporations that reflect interests other than profit maximization. 5. The power of investors to influence corporate behavior through capital allocation-investments (including impact investing) and divestments-and shareholder activism. 6. The power of other stakeholders, including consumers and employees, to influence corporate behavior. This discussion seminar will meet four times during the Fall quarter. You will be notified of the meeting times by the instructor. Specific dates, time, and location will also be listed in "Notes" below. Elements used in grading: Attendance and class participation.
Last offered: Autumn 2019
LAW 240D: Discussion (1L): Criminal Legal Histories
This seminar will trace the roots of four critical aspects of the American criminal justice system: jury independence and the power of jurors to render verdicts according to conscience; plea bargaining and the marginalization of juries; penitentiaries and the displacement of other forms of punishment; and the criminalization of recreational drugs. Though modern criminal justice policy will inform our conversation, the readings will be historical with an emphasis on primary source documents. We will examine the forces driving legal evolution and the historian's tools in mapping those forces, always with an eye on the impact of those forces on marginalized groups. Class meets 6:30 PM-8:30 PM on Sept. 13, Sept. 27, Oct. 11, Oct. 25. Elements used in grading: Full attendance, reading of assigned materials, and active participation..
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Fisher, G. (PI)
LAW 240E: Discussion (1L): Dress Codes: Race, Identity and Personal Appearance
Dress Codes may seem a bit old fashioned, but in fact we are constantly told who should wear what and when. Rules---written and implied---divide formal from casual attire and children's clothing from that of adults. There are rules for what to wear in each season of the year and rules about the right attire for different times of the day. And, of course, there are rules about the types of clothing men may wear and about the clothing suitable for women. Adherence to such rules is considered by many to be an important signal of breeding and even character: accordingly, immediate social sanctions---and indirect professional consequences---can follow from breaking them. Some dress codes are job requirements or house rules of an organization or establishment---flouting them can get one fired, kicked out of school or barred from a restaurant. Finally, there are laws about clothing, enforced by police or government officials. Break these rules and you may find yourself facing a fine or even a jail sentence. Why is attire so rule bound? Why and when is clothing important enough to become the subject of written treatises, rules and regulations, legislative proclamations and judicial edicts? This seminar will explore dress codes, from the sumptuary laws of the late Middle Ages to the unstated norms of the 21st century, and discover what they can tell us about the significance of clothing---our most conspicuous medium of self-expression---and its relationship to individual identity, community cohesiveness and social order. This discussion seminar will meet four times during the Fall quarter. Meeting dates and times to be arranged by instructor. Elements used in grading: Attendance and class participation.
Last offered: Autumn 2020
LAW 240F: Discussion (1L): Feminist Jurisprudence
This discussion seminar will consider some of the major theoretical writings of the past 40 years in feminist legal theory, and explore the application of different theoretical approaches to contemporary issues in the law. Likely readings include Catherine MacKinnon, Robin West, Janet Halley, and Angela Harris. Possible topics include campus sexual misconduct codes, the Me Too movement, the meaning of consent, and the legal treatment of the family. This discussion seminar will meet four times during the Fall quarter. You will be notified of the meeting times by the instructor. Specific dates, time, and location will also be listed in "Notes" below. Elements used in grading: Attendance and class participation.
Last offered: Autumn 2019
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