Introduction to the Law of France and the European Union
(With an Emphasis on Labor Law) (2 s.h. credit)
After an introduction to the laws of France, the course will be devoted to the development of the law of the European Union, its characteristic features, and the role of its main institutions. This will be followed by an analysis of the European Union laws concerning the free movement of workers, equality between women and men, the status of trade unions, workers' representation at plant level, collective bargaining, layoffs, and procedures for informing and consulting employees in transnational undertakings. For a complete description, please see:
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Taught by Michaël Amado, LLM, MBA (University of Paris I Sorbonne) Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Paris; Avocat à la cour, Amado-Cabinet D'Avocats, Paris.
Law in the Muslim World
(2 s.h. credit)
This course will survey a selection of the various types of laws existing in the nearly 60 countries of the Muslim world. The subjects will include: Islamic law; unwritten customary law; civil law including constitutional, commercial, and criminal law; international human rights law, particularly women's rights, and a case study on the right to self-determination; and public international law relating to terrorism.
Taught by Program Director Adrien Katherine Wing, AB (Princeton), MA (UCLA), JD (Stanford), Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Faculty, University of Iowa.
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Comparative Inequality
(2 s.hr. credit)
Every nation has disfavored and favored social groups, whether based on race, sex or gender, class, color, disability, and/or other identity categories. Often, members from a country’s disfavored group or groups are disproportionately overrepresented in rates of incarceration and underrepresented in higher education, high status employment, and representation in government. To deal with these inequalities, many nations have implemented laws to redress past discrimination and/or ameliorate present discrimination through some method of affirmative action, also known as “positive discrimination.”
This course will use affirmative action or “positive discrimination” as a lens for examining and comparing inequality and inclusion in the countries of France, Brazil, Canada, India, South Africa, and the United States. Specifically, this course will briefly examine and compare the historical context in which affirmative action or “positive discrimination” programs have been implemented for certain groups within the nations of Brazil, Canada, India, South Africa, and the United States as well as the arguments in favor of and against such programs in each of those countries. Thereafter, this course will apply the lessons to be learned from these countries to France, asking and working to answer the question: Is France In Need of Affirmative Action?
Taught by Angela Onwuachi-Willig, BA (Grinnell), JD (Michigan), Professor of Law and Charles M. & Marion J. Kierscht Scholar, University of Iowa.
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