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May 16, 2024
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PSCI 211 - Law, Justice, and Society4 credits
The course introduces students to an interdisciplinary perspective to legal studies. There are four main parts of the course. The first part of the course deals with jurisprudence (theories of law). The second part focuses on legal institutions, namely courts, legal education, lawyers and juries taking the U.S. as an example. The third section will focus on certain key issues and debates that have pervaded the legal lives of the U.S. We will focus on the due process rights during routine and extraordinary contexts, and the legal discussions on race, gender, citizenship, culture, and immigration drawing from legal scholars across different disciplines. In the final section, we study some international aspects of law and the ways in which international institutions and perspectives inform legal debates. The overall focus is on the relationship between law and justice; the differential ways in which law is experienced in society; and how law and society mutually constitute each other. Annually. CLA-Breadth/Social Science, CLA - Diversity U.S.
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