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227.27 sec. 001 - Work Law Colloquium (Spring 2026)
Instructor: Catherine Laura Fisk (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only | profile)
Instructor: Diana S Reddy (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only)
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Units: 2
Grading Designation: Graded
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meeting:
M 3:35 PM - 5:25 PM
Location: TBA
From January 12, 2026
To April 28, 2026
Course End: April 28, 2026
Class Number: 34157
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 22
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 35
As of: 02/11 12:27 AM
This course focuses on cutting-edge issues in the regulation of work and provides students a unique opportunity to engage with leading scholars and policy-makers' thinking and writing in the area. Work as we know it is evolving at an incredibly rapid pace, in part due to technological innovations, like app-based platforms and generative AI. Across the political spectrum, there are a range of perspectives about how law and policy should respond to these changes: from universal basic income as a potential remedy to technological unemployment to radical changes in the legal protections afforded to public employees to a renewed emphasis on industrial policy as a form of work law. Much is up for grabs right now, and this course allows students to be part of the conversation.
Throughout the semester, students will have the chance to read and comment on new and forthcoming scholarship in the area of work law. Most class sessions will feature an invited speaker who will present a work in progress and engage with questions and comments from students, faculty, and others in the audience. When there is no invited speaker, we will discuss foundational ideas and debates in the field as well as discuss and prepare questions and feedback for invited speakers. Students will be asked to write a series of short papers, responding to a selection of the presented works, and to participate fully in each class session.
This year's Colloquium will focus specifically on the future of work law, that is, how work law can and should evolve amidst rapid technological, political, and social change. Invited speakers will discuss both core work law issues and how related bodies of law, like antitrust, immigration, and trade law, matter for the future of workers. Specific topics may include: AI/algorithmic management, public employment, a law and political economy approach to discrimination law, and much more.
This course should interest students considering a career in work law and/or legal academia. But it should also be of interest to a wide variety of students, whether generalists or focusing on other fields, who nonetheless want to have the tools to think about and discuss cutting-edge public policy debates about the future of how we work, produce, consume, earn money, and spend our time.
Exam Notes: (None) Series of papers or assignments throughout the semester
(Subject to change by faculty member only through the first two weeks of instruction)
Course Category: Work Law
This course is listed in the following sub-categories:
Public Law and Policy
Social Justice and Public Interest
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