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, 2013-2014

Course #

 

Title

Professor

FALL

101-6

Law and the Civil Rights Movement

Grisinger

376

Race, Politics, and the Law

Schoenfeld

398-1

Advanced Research Seminar

Grisinger

WINTER

206

Law and Society

Nielsen

318-1

Legal and Constitutional History of the United States (to 1850)

Grisinger

376
Law, Politics, and the American Revolution
Stearns
376
TBA
Stearns

394

American Lawyers:  Demystifying the Profession

Harper

394
Foundations of Legal Thought
Epstein

394

Human Rights and US Refugee Law

Schiller

398-2

Advanced Research Seminar

Grisinger

SPRING

206

Law and Society

Schoenfeld

318-2

Legal and Constitutional History of the United States (since 1850)

Grisinger

305

Law and Social Policy

Schoenfeld

310

Gender & the Law

Weinberg

376
TBA
Stearns

 

 

 

Upcoming Events

Legal Studies Graduation Reception
June 21, 20131:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Office Hours:

By appointment

Professor Grisinger's Summer Quarter Office Hours:

By appointment

 


Contact Information

Lauren Stuhldreher
Program Assistant

Laura Beth Nielsen
Program Director

Joanna Grisinger

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Legal Studies Photos

May 21, 2013