The Course Papers

 It has been the temperament of my students, in these many semesters, to write on such following themes:

• End subsidies for fossil fuels
• Gas taxes
• Micro Lending/Micro Credit: A Positive Example of Globalization and a Solution to Poverty
• Renewable energies
• Climate Change: Mitigation Processes of Indigenous Peoples
• Next industrial revolution
• Re-thinking schools
• Natural capitalism
• Ecology of commerce
• The Historical Roots and Contemporary Manifestations of Corporate Sponsorship of American Education
• Bodies, Corporate and Corporeal:  Contemporary Cultural Anxieties and the Search for Corporate Accountability
• Nanotechnology and the Future of Agriculture
• The Timber Trade and Pest Infestation: An Example of the Environmental and Human Health and Cultural Dangers of Deregulated International Trade
• The Preservation of Native Languages: Toward a Global Model
• Processes of Change in the Global Diet: Effects on Human Health, Culture, and the Environment
• The Conflicting Domestic and Foreign Policies of the United States Government Concerning Toxic Substances and Dangerous Labor Practices
• Media Mergers and the First Amendment
• Overpopulation in the United States: Why We Should Care and What We Need to Do About It
• Armed Conflicts and Globalization: Creating Instability in Indigenous Societies of Guatemala and Colombia
• The Adbusters Dilemma: Promoting Equal Access and Protecting Commercial Speech in the Wake of Conflicting First Amendment Jurisprudence
• Life Saving Medicine and Pharmaceutical Profits
• The Jetsons as Educational Programming?  Just Ask the FCC!  A Report on the FCC=s Children=s Television Act of 1996
• The Price of Gold
• A Plea for Corporate Social Responsibility
• Shareholder Activism
• Human Rights Litigation in Domestic Courts: A Practical Solution or a Diversion Away From Effective International Enforcement?
• Globalization and Mental Health
• Origins of Censorship in China and Its Manifestations in Contemporary Society Via Advertising and the Internet
• The Effects of Globalization on American Indian Communities: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• The Importance of Saving An Endangered Species: The Increasing Extinction of Languages
• Animal Rights: The Need for a New Ethics
• The Pacific Islands and Globalization
• The Debate Over Female Genital Mutilation: Policies and Practices and the Impact on Global Relations
• The Commodification of Water: What Will Stop the Lexus From Stealing the Olive Tree’s Water?
• Global Village or Gated Community?  US Immigration and Globalization in the Twenty-First Century
• Ecotourism:  Creating Alternatives in the World’s Largest Industry
• For Geography
• Battle Against the English Tide: Quebec’s Language Laws
• Seeking Control, Safety, and Choice:  A Call for Consensual Consumption
• Globalization and Oil in Nigeria: A Blessing and a Curse
•   Local Currencies and North American Indian Tribes
• Transgenic Crops on a Global Scale: Saving Grace or Damnation?
• The Congo Basin: Foreign Logging Companies Don’t Just Take Trees – They Drive the Bushmeat Business
• A Right or a Riot?  Where Does Protest Cross the Line?
• Anorexia and Bulimia: Just Another Cultural Export
• Skinny White Women: Globalization and the Exportation of an Unattainable Beauty Standard
• Internationalizing and Globalizing the Risks of Western Science: Xenotransplantation
• Veggie Libel: What Your Grocer Isn’t Telling You
• The Case for the Cow:  The Human Obligation to Respond to Animal Cruelty in United States Slaughterhouses
• Writhing in Their Skins: Children and the Perils of Modern Food Consumption
• Progress: The Evolution of its Meaning
• Foreign Direct Liability:  Holding Multi-National Corporations Responsible for Environmental Harms and Human Rights Abuses Abroad
• Country of Origin Labeling of Agricultural Food Products as a Step to Achieve Food Sovereignty
• The Human Right to Remove Proprietary Ownership of Medicines
• The Consequences of International Aid
• Grazing Laws
• Pollution Credits and Permitting (As Opposed to Rethinking Consumption)
• Sustainability as a Social Negotiation of Values
• The Role of Corporations as De Facto Nation States in Abandoned Reaches of the World
• Television in Schools
• Disease, Demography, and Ecological Change
• Can United States Court Decisions Be Challenged in Chapter 11 NAFTA Cases
• Genetic Engineering as a Global Commons
• Designing Children[1]
• Oil Extraction in Africa:  Conflicts of Abundance
• Labeling of Organic and Genetically Modified Foods and Issues Surrounding the Codex Alimentarius
• Corporate Sponsorship and Ownership of Research Generated on Campus
• The Commercialization of Third World Health Care
• Media Licensing
• Whether Intellectual Property Laws Can Withstand Technological Devices And Whether Intellectual Property Can or Should Be Compensable At All
• The Current Scope of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
• Taxation of Reproductive Rights
• International Human Slavery, Prostitution and the Trade in Human Organs
• The Value of Diamonds
• Frequency and Noise Pollution
• Criminalization of Breast Feeding
• Congressional Power to Limit Liability for Technological Harm
• Liability for the Introduction of a Foreign Disease or Species
• The Law of Robots
• The Genetic Engineer=s and Nano-Technician’s Code of Ethics
• Compensation for the Taking of Property vs. Responsibility to Perform Civic Good
• Whether Regulations Are a Symptom of Design Failure[2]
• The Aspiration of Laws Toward an Integration of Human Society=s Material, Spiritual, and Ecological Elements[3]
• Religious Distinctiveness and Environmental Conceptions
• The Militarization of Space

Set forth here is the Syllabus and Bibliography (amended through [1/10]).  I recognize that I only have, in the course of one semester, enough time to skip stones across a lake, stressing in the sessions only a pebble=s bounce of information on each massive subject.  But my overall goal is to give the class a platform from which to question assumptions, values, and authority, hopefully throughout the students’ lives.  I am designing an online interactive version of this course that will to continue to supplement itself with the works of new visionaries.  If you want to participate in this clearinghouse, kindly write to me at hershey@law.arizona.edu.