Peter,
       I suggest an article in 43 Rutgers Law Review 355-416, entitled,
"The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989:  A False Hope for
Whistleblowers," that someone called Bruce D. Fisher.
                         Bruce
At 03:07 PM 12/16/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Dear colleagues:
>
>I've been asked on very short notice to mount an upper division
>whistleblowing law course for the month of January at a law school.  It
>is a 4-credit short course with 3 hours of face time each weekday.
>Naturally, I'm wondering how to organize the subject quickly and how
>I'll fill all that compressed contact time.  To make it all interesting,
>varied and useful is a yet higher level of challenge.
>
>I plan to make the evaluation mostly a research paper and I have some
>research topics in mind for the students to choose from, but would like
>to hear what you consider to be good whistleblowing law research
>questions.  For DVDs, I can think of Silkwood, The Insider and Erin
>Brockovich (those can burn some contact time).  Any others?
>
>I'd like to take a broad perspective on whistleblowing - looking at some
>of the psych/socio behaviorial literature, constitutional issues of free
>speech, non-employment scenarios, international legal approaches, and
>individual case studies.  There is no time to prescribe a textbook.  Can
>anyone help with references to what I could use - I'd like to make it a
>reading list course.  What are the leading American statutes, judicial
>decisions and other readings on whistleblowing?
>
>All your suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
>
>Cheers,
>Peter Bowal
>University of Calgary
>