Professor Lenni Benson Introduction to the Immigration and Nationality Act and study of a variety of topics in the field of immigration, including selection system, employment certification, citizenship, deportation and exclusion, administrative appeals, and judicial review. This workshop explores advanced issues in immigration and nationality law by combining a seminar with a supervised placement. The placements include government agencies, private law firms, in-house corporate legal departments, public interest agencies and clinics. Workshop participants must devote at least 7 hours per week to their placements, meet with supervising faculty and placement mentor, and attend the seminar and complete all seminar assignments. A limited number students may be admitted to the two-hour seminar without undertaking a placement.
Enrollment is limited.
Professors Arthur Leonard, Margaret Leibowitz A course on the legal framework and concepts governing the relationship between employers and employee organizations in the private sector in the United States. The course covers the evolution of labor legislation, the concept of exclusive representation, the procedures for establishment of the collective bargaining relationship, strikes, the legal framework for collective bargaining and the administration of collective bargaining agreements, and prohibitions against secondary pressure by unions. The course examines the legal rights of mentally handicapped persons, with special focus on the right to receive or refuse treatment, civil rights within institutions for the mentally handicapped, and the right to the least restrictive treatment environment. Civil commitment criteria are studied, as is the possible existence of a right to aftercare and community services for deinstitutionalized patients and the perceived linkage between homelessness and deinstitutionalization. This course focuses, through readings, lectures, and class discussion, on the major modern problems of how state action and funding may be used to promote public health through prevention, treatment, and behavioral restraint.