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LSJ 200 Introduction to Law, Societies, and Justice (5) I&S
Explores the central role of law in social processes; investigates the primary types of legal regimes and compares them across different national and international contexts; contrasts legal with non-legal forms of social ordering; investigates the structure and practice of human rights law.
LSJ 299 Special Topics in Law, Societies, and Justice (2-5, max. 10) I&S
Examines a different subject or problem of current interest within the discipline.
Instructor Course Description:
Kimberley Manning
LSJ 301 Internship (1-5, max. 5)
Participation in an approved internship. Credit/no credit only.
LSJ 310 Research in Law, Societies, and Justice (1-5, max. 15) I&S
Supervised introductory individual and/or seminar based research on some aspect of society and justice.
LSJ 320 The Politics and Law of International Human Rights (5) I&S
Studies the international human rights movement in its legal and political context. Focuses on institutions which influence, enable, and constrain the international promotion of human rights. Offered: jointly with POL S 368.
Instructor Course Description:
Arzoo Osanloo
David Watkins
Jason Mayerfeld
Theresa J. Squatrito
LSJ 321 Human Rights Law in Culture and Practice (5) I&S
Introduces the complexities of issues surrounding human rights. Examines human rights concerns through critical analyses, taking into account legal, social, economic, and historical variables. Offered: jointly with ANTH 323.
LSJ 322 Human Rights in Latin America (5) I&S
Overview of human rights issues and their recent evolution in Latin American history; military dictatorships; contemporary challenges in the region's democracies. Human rights concerns in relation to broader sociopolitical context. Recommended: knowledge of modern Latin American history. Offered: jointly with SIS 322.
LSJ 327 Women's Rights as Human Rights (5) I&S
Women's rights in comparative perspective, focusing on varying settings that alter the meaning and practical application. Domestic level: areas including abortion politics to trafficking in women. International level: areas including equality claims before European supranational judicial bodies, rape as war crime in international law. Offered: jointly with POL S 327.
Instructor Course Description:
Rachel A Cichowski
Theresa J. Squatrito
Yuksel Sezgin
LSJ 330 Beyond Civil Rights: Law, Culture, and Change (5) I&S
Assessment of the contemporary politics of civil rights as shaped by an identity politics that is both significant and passe. Recommended: LSJ 363 or one course in either AES or WOMEN. Offered: jointly with AES 330.
LSJ 331 The Politics of Race and Ethnicity in the United States (5) I&S
Introduction to the history and development of racial hierarchy, focusing on how race and ethnicity shape political institutions (e.g., the Constitution, political parties, voting systems). Examination of political relationships between Whites, African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans. Case studies of minority representation and the politics of welfare, crime, immigration, and terrorism. Offered: jointly with POL S 317.
Instructor Course Description:
Emily R. Ernst
LSJ 332 Disability and Society: Introduction to Disability Studies (5) I&S
Introduction to the field of disability studies. Focuses on theoretical questions of how society predominantly understands disability and the social justice consequences. Examines biological, social, cultural, political, and economic determinants in social creation/construction (framing) of disability and effects on those claiming and/or labeled as disabled. Offered: jointly with CHID 332.
Instructor Course Description:
Dennis Lang
LSJ 336 The Place of Law in Multicultural Conflicts (5) I&S Barzilai
Global and regional issues of multicultural conflict and the law. Covers the multiplicity of theories, facts, and interpretations that shape this field of study, some of which are controversial, including: legal identities, cultural difference and human rights, multicultural jurisdictions, international/transnational immigration, and legal pluralism. Offered: jointly with SIS 336.
LSJ 355 Introduction to the American Court System (5) I&S
Philosophical and structural bases of the American court system; roles of attorneys, judges and the public in that system. Some focus also on current challenges to the courts posed by court congestion and alternative dispute resolution, and on future prospects for the courts.
Instructor Course Description:
Marilyn E Walsh
LSJ 360 Introduction to United States Constitutional Law (5) I&S
Growth and development of the United States Constitution as reflected in decisions of the Supreme Court; political, social, and economic effects. Offered: jointly with POL S 360.
Instructor Course Description:
George I Lovell
LSJ 361 United States Courts and Civil Liberty (5) I&S
Cases and literature bearing on protection of constitutionally guaranteed private rights, with particular reference to the period since 1937. Offered: jointly with POL S 361.
Instructor Course Description:
George I Lovell
LSJ 362 Law and Justice: An Introduction to Social Theory (5) I&S Godoy
Provides conceptual tools for understanding law and its role in society by acquainting students with major currents of social theory. Topics include liberalism, Marxism, critical feminist theory, and critical race theory. Offered: jointly with SIS 362.
LSJ 363 Law in Society (5) I&S
Inquiry into how law matters in social practice. Examines general theories of law, the workings of legal institutions, and the character of legally constituted practices and relationships in diverse terrains of social life. Offered: jointly with POL S 363.
Instructor Course Description:
Claire E. Rasmussen
Jeffrey Dudas
Tuna A. Kuyucu
Stephen J. Sandweiss
LSJ 367 Comparative Law and Courts (5) I&S
Introduction to comparative judicial politics, focusing on the relationship between law and politics in cross-national perspective, as well as on the functioning of supranational and international legal entities in the international system. Offered: jointly with POL S 367.
Instructor Course Description:
Rachel A Cichowski
Scott E. Lemieux
Theresa J. Squatrito
Yuksel Sezgin
LSJ 375 Crime, Politics, and Justice (5) I&S
Reviews the major components -- police, courts, and corrections -- of the U.S. criminal justice system; investigates critical factors that shape criminal procedure; considers the relationship between criminal procedure and wider concerns of justice.
LSJ 376 Drugs and Society (5) I&S Beckett
Explores the questions of drug use and abuse, social and political factors that shape response to their use, and the social conditions under which drug use is likely to have adverse consequences. Also covers U.S. drug control policy, the political economy of legal and illegal drugs, and political aspects of drug use. Offered: jointly with SOC 376.
LSJ 377 Punishment: Theory and Practice (5) I&S
Examines the philosophical reasoning that underlies punishment practices such as sentencing, imprisonment, or capital punishment. Considers policy issues in these areas in light of theories about morality and human nature. Helps students learn how to analyze punishment policies from ethical and philosophical perspectives.
LSJ 378 Policing the City (5) I&S Herbert
Investigates how and why formal and informal order is established in urban areas, how this order produces advantages and disadvantages, and possibilities of alternative visions of order. Topics include formal means of control (zoning, laws, policing, building codes) and informal means of control (gossip, ostracism, peer pressure, local politics). Offered: jointly with GEOG 378; A.
LSJ 379 Prisons in Anthropological Perspective (5) I&S Rhodes
An introduction to prisons from an anthropological point of view, with focus on prisons as total institutions. Topics include the experiences of prisoners and staff, prison history, issues of race and gender associated with incarceration, and the imprisonment of the mentally ill. Offered: jointly with ANTH 379.
LSJ 380 Contemporary Issues in Law, Societies, and Justice (5, max. 10) I&S
Theoretical, empirical, and comparative aspects of such topics as human rights, socio-legal concepts, justice, and legal policy. Recommended: POL S 101, POL S 202, POL S 204, or SOC 110.
Instructor Course Description:
Carrie A. Doan
Dominic Corva
Jean M Carmalt
Yuksel Sezgin
LSJ 400 Senior Seminar (5, max. 10)
For students in their final year as Law, Societies, and Justice majors. Incorporates material learned in student’s primary field of specialization. Includes independent research, oral presentations, and the completion of a substantial paper.
LSJ 401 Field Experience in Law, Societies, and Justice (5)
Participant observation in a public or private agency relevant to the study of law, justice, human rights, or court systems.
LSJ 410 Human Rights in Latin America (5) I&S
Human rights in Latin America, focusing on twentieth century dictatorships and current regional events and their implications for human rights. Cannot be taken for credit if GIS 174 or SISLA 120 previously taken. Offered: jointly with SIS 470. Prerequisite: either ANTH 323, LSJ 320, LSJ 321, POL S 368, PHIL 338, SIS 200, or SIS 201.
LSJ 420 The Politics of Rights (5) M. McCann
Examines rights in practical and social interaction, rights as social conventions, relations of rights practices to official state policies, disputing practices, interest formation, and identify construction at individual and group levels. Explores how rights practices figure into the constellation of contested power relations within modern societies.
LSJ 421 Women's Rights and Politics in Islamic Society (5) I&S
Human rights theory with women's legal rights and practice within context of the Islamic state. Introduction to debates regarding universality of human rights through examination of women's rights in Muslim context. Considers journalistic notions of homogeneity among Muslims, political nature of the Islamic state, and its mobilization of human rights. Offered: jointly with ANTH 498.
Instructor Course Description:
Arzoo Osanloo
LSJ 425 Domesticating International Human Rights: Perspectives on U.S. Asylum and Refugee Law (5) I&S
Examines the creation, production, and proliferation of law and legal categories relating to the status of refugees and asylum-seekers in the United States. Integrates anthropological perspectives of law's ability to create meaning in the examination of deeper implications of asylum and refugee law in American society. Offered: jointly with ANTH 497.
Instructor Course Description:
Arzoo Osanloo
LSJ 428 Women's Rights in an Integrated Europe (5) I&S
Examines the transformation in women's rights policy within the European community from the late 1950s through the present. Focuses on the legal rules and bodies that govern not only these policy domains, but also their evolution and impacts. Offered: jointly with POL S 415.
LSJ 433 Disability Law, Policy, and the Community (5)
Seminar addressing legal rights of disabled people, history of disability policy in the United States, and the role of community activism and other forces in policy development and systems change. Introduction to the existing social service systems that affect disabled people. Recommended: LSJ 332. Offered: jointly with CHID 433.
LSJ 434 Civil and Human Rights Law for Disabled People (5) I&S
Designed for students interested in expanding their knowledge of civil and human rights for disabled people. Examines the American perspective (ADA) as well as various international models including the United Nations' International Human Rights treaties as they relate to disabled people. Recommended: LSJ 332. Offered: jointly with CHID 434.
Instructor Course Description:
Sharan E Brown
LSJ 439 Law and Political Power: Global and Local Issues (5) I&S Barzilai
Explores global and local interactions between political power and rule of law. Studies theory of law and political power; development of the concept of 'rule of law'; development and boundaries of civil democratic supervision; political corruption; relationship between economies and law; warfare; terrorism, counter-terrorism, and human rights. Offered: jointly with SIS 439.
LSJ 440 Criminal Law and Procedure (5) I&S
Substantive and procedural criminal law for lay persons; analysis of the philosophy behind the law, with an emphasis on due process in adult and juvenile courts; case-analysis teaching technique.
LSJ 444 Ethics in Law and Justice (5) I&S
Applies ethical theories, research, and practice to the law and justice system, with the goals of: (1) analyzing the moral dimensions of criminal law, (2) studying ethical issues in law enforcement, adjudications, and corrections, and (3) examining a variety of controversial ethical issues associated with the justice system.
LSJ 466 Feminist Legal Studies: Theory and Practice (5) I&S
Examines feminist theoretical analyses of the law. Engages in current debate on the study of critical race, gender, and class theory. Includes: women in prison, public assistance, the sex industry, women and health care, and immigration law. Recommended: WOMEN 200 or WOMEN 310. Offered: jointly with POL S 466/WOMEN 410.
LSJ 469 Law, Development, and Transition in East Asia (5) I&S
Examines the role of law and the courts in economic and political change in the developing world. Topics include variations in legal traditions and institutions, economic development, property rights, dispute resolution, democratization, and human rights. Empirical materials focus on East Asia. Offered: jointly with POL S 469/SISEA 469.
Instructor Course Description:
Susan H. Whiting
LSJ 470 Evaluation Research in Criminal Justice (5) I&S
Social science research methods relevant to criminal justice evaluation and operations research. Ethical considerations, formulation of goals and objectives, problem definition and research design, sources and methods of data collection, descriptive statistics, data interpretation, and utilizations of research results.
LSJ 473 Corrections (5) I&S
Analyzes research on diversionary methods, treatment of convicted offenders. Emphasis on program evaluation. Community treatment, fines, restitution, probation, parole, halfway houses, other alternatives to incarceration; correctional institutions. Organization of state, federal systems. Problems of administration. Subsidies, governmental control. Planning, public participation. Recommended: SOC 371 and SOC 372. Offered: jointly with SOC 473.
LSJ 474 Geography and the Law (5) I&S Herbert
Examines the relationship between geography, law, and socio-legal analysis; reviews significant instances where law and geography intersect, such as the regulation of public space, the regulation of borders and mobility, and disputes over property and land use. Offered: jointly with GEOG 474.
LSJ 476 Miscarriages of Justice (5) I&S
Examines legal and social factors that shape criminal case outcomes, analyzing how one type of miscarriage of justice -- wrongful conviction -- occurs. How can cases of wrongful conviction be explained? Why are some people, against whom there is only weak evidence, convicted--and sometimes even executed? Offered: jointly with SOC 476.
LSJ 480 The Police (5) I&S
Conceptual and empirical issues concerning multifaceted and changing roles of the American police.
LSJ 485 Introduction to Organized and White Collar Crime (3) I&S
Overview of organized and white collar crime. Exposure to definitional problems, distinctive characteristics, potential areas of overlap, and barriers to more effective social control. Addresses impediments resulting from inadequate conceptualizations, legal and operational difficulties in pursuing offenders, and effects of corruption and discretion in the justice system.
LSJ 488 Honors Thesis (5-) I&S
First of a two-course hyphenated sequence. To be completed with LSJ 489.
LSJ 489 Honors Thesis (-[1-5, max. 5]) I&S
Thesis research honors option. Second of a two-course hyphenated sequence. To be completed with LSJ 488.
LSJ 490 Special Topics in Law, Societies, and Justice (1-5, max. 15) I&S
Examination of socio-legal topics. Content varies.
Instructor Course Description:
Angelina Snodgrass Godoy
Arzoo Osanloo
Andrea Y Simpson
Elizabeth L. Kier
Lauraleen R Ford
Arda Ibikoglu
Jason Mayerfeld
Rachel A Cichowski
Susan H. Whiting
Yuksel Sezgin
LSJ 495 Study Abroad-Law, Societies, and Justice (3-5, max. 15) I&S
Comparative studies abroad of legal institutions, rights, and justice as related to national settings. Specific course content determined by faculty member.
LSJ 499 Readings in Law, Societies, and Justice (1-5, max. 10)
Individual readings in law, societies, and justice.
LSJ 501 Law and Society Studies (5) Beckett, Herbert, McCann
Provides a broad overview of, and introduction to, the interdisciplinary field of Law and Society Studies, including the historical development of law and society studies and an overview of its main concerns and questions.
LSJ 510 Topics in Law and Society Studies (3-5, max. 20)
Current topics in law and society studies.
