Undergraduate Program

Program Description

Legal Studies is designed for students who seek to employ various academic perspectives and methodologies to study legal issues, and to use the conceptual framework of the law to illuminate empirical and theoretical concerns in the social sciences and humanities. It is not a "pre-law" program. Legal Studies conceives of law broadly to include the study of legal institutions, legal actors, and legal processes. Law, broadly conceived, is a social institution that provides an excellent lens through which students may learn about and critically examine a variety of themes central to other disciplines, shedding light on both the understanding of law as well as debates central to those disciplines. Legal Studies emphasizes the reciprocal relationships between law and society to examine the social environment.

Yearly Planner, 2011-2012

Course Number	Title	Professor
FALL
376	Legal History of the American Colonies and Constitution	Grisinger
376	Trial Advocacy	Fisz
394	Gimme Shelter: Public Housing in Chicago	Bazer
394	Federal Indian Law	Low
398-1	Advanced Research Seminar	Grisinger
WINTER
332	Constitutional Law I	Grisinger
376	Law, Gender, and Sexuality	Kosbie
394	American Lawyers: Demystifying the Profession	Harper
394	Human Rights and US Refugee Law	Schiller
398-2	Advanced Research Seminar	Grisinger
SPRING
333	Constitutional Law II	Grisinger
376	Gender and the Law	Grisinger
394	Robert’s Supreme Court	Bazer