ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY

Graduate Prerequisites: ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - Workers today have little say inside American companies. This course will explore worker voice in the corporation and workplaces more generally. We will investigate various methods for enhancing worker voice, such as codetermination, bicameralism, unionization, worker councils, employee ownership, and shareholder activism. We will explore how corporate law and investor law both inhibit and shape worker economic voice, and we will study various current developments including efforts to put workers on corporate boards, the human capital management movement, labor's capital activism, proposed reforms to corporate governance and corporate purpose, and expanding notions of fiduciary duty. There will be several professional and academic guest speakers. GRADING NOTICE: This class does not offer the CR/NC/H option. PREREQUISITE: Corporations. UPPER-CLASS WRITING REQUIREMENT: A limited number of students may use this class to satisfy the requirement. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.