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