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Spring 2025

5380 Labor Law - TAYLOR- 25185

Professor(s): John  Taylor (ADJUNCT)

Credits: 3

Course Areas: Employment and Labor Law 

Time: 2:30p-4:00p  MW  Location: 312 

Course Outline: This course will focus on the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, the principal law governing the relationship between private sector employer and labor unions. More specifically, the course examines the law of unionization and collective bargaining and the efficacy of federal regulation of employee efforts to collectively bargain with employers.

Course Syllabus: Syllabus

Course Notes: (Face-to-Face)  The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.

Prerequisites:  

First Day Assignments:

Final Exam Schedule: 5/5/2025 2-5pm  312    

This course will have:
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Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No

Experiential Course Type: No

Bar Course: No

DistanceEd ABA: No

Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)

Course Materials

Book(s) Required

Course Materials: Modern Labor Law in the Private and Public Sectors Cases and Materials, 3d edition, by Seth Harris, Joseph E. Slater, Anne Marie Lofaso, Charlotte Garden, Richard F. Griffin, Jr. - ISBN: 9781531018528