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W76 LAW 862SSeminar on Social Movements, Work & Law (Crain)3.0 Units
Description:Enrollment Limit: 16. Drop deadline: 5:00 p.m. on the day after the first class meeting. Prerequisite: Students must have taken (or be taking concurrently) one of the following: Labor Law, Employment Law, or Employment Discrimination. This seminar will explore the relationship between social movements and the law of work, seeking to understand the relationship between law, social movements, and social change. Law is a contested terrain for social movement struggles; movements often frame their struggles around demands for legal rights, relying on them to generate collective consciousness and to recruit and mobilize activists. At the same time, however, law and legal strategies can exert a conservative influence on social movements by channeling protest and more radical forms of action into conventional legal and political institutions. We will study some of the leading theoretical models in the social movement field, explore how law is used in the framing of grievances and the social construction of group identity, interrogate how legal reform once achieved influences the social movement that produced it, and assess the most effective ways in which law has been deployed to accomplish social change. The social movements on which our reading and discussion will focus will be the labor movement, the feminist movement, the civil rights movement, and the LGBT movement, but students are free to select any social movement for their written work in this seminar as long as one focus of that movement has been addressed to the laws governing work. The first half of the course will consist of regular class meetings with assigned interdisciplinary readings from scholarly articles and books, and key cases. Students will write short reaction papers (1- page) to the readings highlighting their questions or critiques, and are expected to participate in class discussion. During this time, students will select a social movement and a Supreme Court or influential circuit court
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