COURSE DESCRIPTION 2012 2013

3 credits day; 3 credits evening. This course is designed to equip students to represent parties in labor and employment arbitration proceedings. There is a significant classroom component. The heart of the course involves simulations affording students the opportunity to prepare and to present cases, to sit as arbitrators and to perform legal writing assignments similar to those required of practitioners. Enrollment is limited to fifteen students. The course grade is based upon students' classroom participation, the quality of their case preparation, their written submissions in the various simulations and a final paper that is anticipated as being no more than ten pages long. This course will examine arbitration as a dispute resolution mechanism in two related, but distinct, contexts. First, the course will study the widely accepted use of arbitration to resolve disputes arising under public and private sector collective bargaining agreements. Thereafter, it will examine the legal principles governing arbitration use to resolve disputes arising under employment regulation statutes like Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and individual contracts of employment. The course will use simulations designed to assist students in developing the practical skills necessary to represent clients in labor and employment arbitration. Will be offered 2012-2013

Prerequisite: Labor Law, Employment Law, or Employment Discrimination Law which may be taken concurrently

Enrollment is limited: 15

Elective Course

Meets Skills Menu Requirement

Meets Health/Biomedical Concentration Requirements

May Fulfill Legal Writing Requirement

Final Paper Required