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Legal Studies Program

COURSES

Legal Studies does not offer its own courses, but helps students bring together courses from across the college so as to provide a meaningful interdisciplinary engagement with the concept and role of law in society. Many courses for the program are offered on a regular basis by the core faculty. Additional courses are selected for credit toward the concentration based on the review of the co-directors. A list of courses approved for the coming semester is available through them at the time of registration. Courses marked below with an asterisk (*) require the prior approval of a co-director of the concentration in order to count toward the concentration. Individuals with further questions may contact the co-directors.

Courses in Contributing Departments

American Studies

topics courses:
American Indian Sovereignty and Activism
Critical Perspectives in American Indian Land Law

Anthropology

topics courses:
Culture, Law and Politics

English

265 Justice (cross listed with Environmental Studies 265)

German Studies

topics courses:
Literary Case Studies from Goethe to Kafka

History

248 Jim Crow

topics courses:
Church & State: Religion and the Founding of the U.S.(*)

614 Independent Study in Legal History

International Studies

topics courses:
Contested Land and the Global Commons: Land, and Revolution and the Emergence of the Modern Muslim

Philosophy

125 Ethics

301 Philosophy of Law

topics courses:
Civic Engagement, Ethics, and Community
Social and Political Philosophy

614 Independent Study in Philosophy and Law

Political Science

206 U.S. Constitutional Law and Thought

207 U.S. Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

212 Law, Lawyers, and Litigation

301 Law, Economy, and Identity

614 Independent Study in Politics and Law

Religious Studies

topics courses:
Introduction to Islamic Law

Russian Studies

270 Wrongdoing in Russian Literature and Beyond

Sociology

190 Criminal Behavior/Social Control

230 Affirmative Action Policy

280 Indigenous Peoples’ Movements in Global Context

310 Law and Society

370 Political Sociology(*)

614 Independent Study in the Sociology of Law

Theatre and Dance

topics courses:
Performance/Documents/Rights


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