Teaching about Just Wage or Family Leave Policies?

The Murphy Institute has posted on line videos of two recent programs that might make great resources for anyone who might want to inject some Catholic perspectives into a class on the topics of just wage, family leave policies, or the role of amicus briefs at the Supreme Court.  As an added bonus, two of the speakers are MOJ'ers.

One is a program in the Murphy Institute's "Hot Topics:  Cool Talk" series:  Just Wages: Catholic Social Thought and Economic Perspectives.  It features MOJ'er Susan Stabile and David O. Vang, UST professor of Finance, both applying Catholic social teachings to policy questions like raising the minimum wage, and both coming up with different prudential conclusions.

The second is a panel on the Young v. UPS case recently argued in front of the Supreme Court, in which a part-time UPS driver challenged UPS's refusal to accommodate the lifting restrictions her doctor recommended during her pregnancy, claiming a violation of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. The panelists include two UST School of Law professors, MOJ'er Thomas Berg and Teresa Collett, who served as counsel on an amicus brief filed for the case in support of Peggy Young, by a large coalition of pro-life groups.  The other panelists were Sara Gross-Methner, UST's General Counsel, and Melissa Raphan, Labor and Employment Department Head of the law firm of Dorsey & Whitney. 

Both of these programs offer sophisticated, nuanced discussions of the issues at stake, and could be valuable supplements to courses touching on these topics.