Professor Laura Beth Nielson (Sociology and Law)

This course is a two-quarter sequence limited to students who have been selected as majors in Legal Studies. The purpose of the course is to expose students to theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of law and legal institutions and their relationship to society.

Although the course enrollment is somewhat large for a seminar (30), it is designed to be an intense interdisciplinary research experience. It is staffed to provide considerable faculty-student contact. In the first quarter and one-half, students will simultaneously read substantive materials in legal studies and learn a set of analytic and research skills that will inform the research projects and papers they will conduct in the second one-half of the course. The seminar will move from meetings and exercises as one group in the first one-half of the sequence to a mixture of group meetings and small tutorial meetings led by Graduate Teaching Fellows with the supervision of the faculty in the second one-half of the sequence. Students will round out the seminar experience by presenting their work to the entire seminar at the conclusion of the seminar sequence.

398-1 Advanced Research Seminar In Legal Studies, Fall 2004

398-2 Advanced Research Seminar In Legal Studies, Winter 2005