University of Maryland School of Law : Catalog, 1988-1989

Labor Law (3)
Students study the law governing
labor-management relations, including
union organization and
representation of employees, regulation
of economic weapons, and
negotiation and enforcement of
collective bargaining agreements,
all with emphasis on the controlling
federal statutes.
Day (Law 534 Q—Ms. Weiss; Evening
(LAW 534 H)— Mr. Rubenstein.
Labor Law Seminar* (3)
This seminar includes advanced
work in such topics as statutory
and common law individual employment
rights, workers' democratic
rights within unions, labor
relations in the public sector, and
individual versus collective rights
and interests in the workplace.
P: Either Employment Law or Labor
Law R: Employment Discrimination
Law.
Day (LAW 565 Q— Not offered
1988-89.
Land Use Control (2)
This course studies public controls
on the use of land including zoning,
subdivision regulations, official
plans, water and sewer permits, impact
fees and environmental laws.
Attention is paid to the judicial review
of the constitutional, political
and economic issues which these
controls present.
Evening (LAW 535 H)— Mr. J.
Smith.
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Law and Biomedical Sciences
Seminar* (3)
This seminar examines the legal
and ethical issues raised in various
health care settings and by the
rapid expansion of medical technology.
The issues explored may
include informed consent; medical
experimentation; foregoing life-sustaining
treatment; abortion; the
new reproductive technologies; surrogate
parenting; genetic screening;
genetic engineering; and organ
transplantation.
Day (LAW 596 C)—Ms. Rothenberg.
Law and Economics Seminar*
(3) and/or Course (2)
This course will introduce the student
to the application of welfare
economics to the analysis of problems
in law and jurisprudence.
Topics will include some of the following:
The Case Theorem and
the efficiency analysis of common
law rules; the ethical critique of efficiency;
elementary social choice
theory leading to the proof of Arrow's
Theorem; Prisoner's Dilemma
and free-rider problems; Newcomb's
problem and the concept of
rational choice; Nash's solution to
the bargaining problem; Kahneman
and Tversky's critique of utility
theory.
The course won't presuppose
any background in mathematics
beyond high school algebra and geometry,
but students must be willing
to work with symbols.
Day (LAW 548 D)—Not offered
1988-89.
Law and Education Seminar*
(3)
This seminar will analyze constitutional,
statutory, regulatory and
common law influences on the
governance, financing and management
of educational enterprises,
with emphasis on "public" schools,
higher education institutions, related
regulatory agencies and coordinating
commissions.
P: Constitutional Law.
Evening (LAW 580 H)—Ms. Heller
and Mr. Mingle.
Law and the Homeless
Seminar* (3)
This seminar will explore the
causes of, and legal responses to,
homelessness in the United States.
The purpose of the seminar is to
examine the roles of lawyers,
courts, legislatures, and executive
branch agencies in alleviating or
aggravating the problems of the
homeless. Topics for discussion will
include public policies on shelter
and housing, rights to shelter and
to alternative housing, zoning restrictions,
income maintenance,
creation of advocacy systems, deinstitutionalization
and rights to aftercare,
compulsory treatment and
shelter, legal problems of homeless
children, rights to vote, and directions
for legislative and other legal
reforms. Each student will prepare
a paper on a topic selected in consultation
with the instructors. In
addition, students will visit one or
more shelters and conduct intake
interviews with homeless persons
seeking legal assistance.
Day (LAW 536 Q—Mr. Herr and
Ms. Hollandsworth.