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Monday 10-13 in building 5220, room 311
first lessons on the 29th August 2011
Building 5220: Jens Baggesens Vej 51-53, Aarhus N
The purpose of the study in this course of comparative labour law and industrial relations is to enable the student through readings, research assignments and participation in instructional activities to be able to identify currently important issue areas within the subject field, understand different national approaches taken to the resolution of policy interests in these issue areas, and the implications of these approaches.
After having participated in prescribed instructional activities in this course, the student will be able to:
The course is based on the notion that comparativism is no longer a purely academic exercise and that is has become an invaluable aid for legal practitioners against the background of ever increasing globalisation, multinational enterprise and crossborder regulation.
The course surveys the subject along thirteen themes (one for each meeting during the course), and will focus on comparing legal solutions found to challenges posed within the theme areas, all of which relate to labour and industrial relations.
The thirteen themes are:
Since the course is issue oriented the labour laws of individual countries will not be systematically examined. Nevertheless, European countries are an important focus point in practice since students come from these countries and the countries provide a good basis for comparison of different approaches. Comparisons are also drawn from Anglophone countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia, and some developing countries.
Background in labour law preferable but not required.
External lecturer David Tajgman
The course is taught on the basis of readings, lectures with multimedia elements, and short individual assignments which ask students to research the position of their own country´s law in respect of the theme set for discussion.
English
Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Industrialized Market Economies, (Ed. Roger Blainpain) (9th edition, 2007) and assigned course readings.
Oral exam