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286U sec. 001 - Race, Equity, and Workplace Law (Spring 2024)
Instructor: Ruben Garcia
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Units: 2
Grading Designation: Graded
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meetings:
W 3:35 PM - 5:25 PM
Location: Booth Auditorium
From January 10, 2024
To January 26, 2024
W 3:35 PM - 5:25 PM
Location: Law 107
From January 29, 2024
To April 17, 2024
Course End: April 17, 2024
Class Number: 33543
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 1
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 24
As of: 04/27 10:26 AM
This course examines the ways in which workplace laws reinforce structural inequality and how social movements mobilize to challenge inequalities across a number of dimensions, including but not limited to race, immigration, union or nonunion status, pay equity and wage theft. Major topics are the growth of the administrative state in areas such as labor-management relations, the eradication of prohibited discrimination and wage theft committed against workers of color and immigrants. Another major focus is theoretical perspectives, including power relationships in the workplace, the roles unions play in a racially stratified society, court interpretations in affecting how justice is administered, and legislative strategies for dealing with complex social and workplace issues impacting vulnerable or marginal workers.We will also study how social movements work through nonlegal channels when legislative change is slow or nonexistent.
I have been a full-time law professor for the past twenty-one years, including the last twelve years at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV, where I co-direct the Workplace Law Program. I am honored to be an elected member of the American Law Institute, and the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, based on my record of teaching, scholarship and service to the profession and the field of workplace law. I have principally taught Labor Law, Constitutional Law and Employment Law, but I have also taught Employment Discrimination, International Labor Law, Legal Ethics, and Civil Procedure. I have taught Employment Law as a Visiting Professor at Brooklyn Law School, and Constitutional Law as a Visiting Professor at UCSD, UC-Davis Law, and in Spring 2024, at UC-Berkeley Law. I have written more than 20 law review articles on the law of the workplace and the Constitution, and two books including “Marginal Workers,” published by New York University Press (2012) and a work in progress for the University of California Press on “Critical Wage Theory: Why Wage Justice is Racial Justice (2024). I am also a co-author on the sixth edition of the book “Legal Protection for the Individual Employee,” published by Thomson West (2021). I earned an A.B. from Stanford, a J.D. from UCLA, and a Master of Laws from the University of Wisconsin, where I held a prestigious William H. Hastie Fellowship. After law school, I was a labor lawyer at Rothner, Segall and Greenstone in Pasadena, CA. I have served on the national Board of Directors of the American Constitution Society and am the faculty advisor to the UNLV Chapter of the ACS. I also serve on the executive committee of the Labor Law Group, consisting of esteemed national and international members of the academy, which since its founding in 1953 has produced quality casebooks for use in labor and employment classes nationally.
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Exam Notes: (P) Final paper
Course Category: Social Justice and Public Interest
This course is listed in the following sub-categories:
Race and Law
Work Law
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