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LEGAL STUDIES (L84) (Dept. Info)

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An Introduction to Logic and Critical Analysis

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Dec 14 2017 8:00AM - 10:00AM

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Dec 18 2017 3:30PM - 5:30PM

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Dec 18 2017 3:30PM - 5:30PM

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Introduction to Political Theory

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Dec 20 2017 1:00PM - 3:00PM

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Freshman Seminar: Law and Society

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This course considers the basic aspects of the American legal system: its foundations, processes, institutions and rights. We will also study some specific substantive areas of the law. The course consists of two 1-1/2 hour Socratic lectures per week. Upon completion of this course, you should have a basic knowledge of the American legal system, an important part of a general education. My hope is that such knowledge will enable you to better understand and assess current legal events. I also hope that you, if you have not already done so, develop an interest in those events. Further, this course should enable you to consider law as a future area of study and career. Interested students may continue their study in the spring semester with an optional one-credit seminar focusing on contemporary Supreme Court cases. Open only to freshman.

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Smith

Dec 15 2017 6:00PM - 8:00PM

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Present Moral Problems

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Wellman

Dec 14 2017 8:00AM - 10:00AM

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An investigation of a range of contemporary moral issues and controversies that draws on philosophical ethics and culturewide moral considerations. Topics may include: racism, world hunger, war and terrorism, the distribution of income and wealth, gender discrimination, pornography, free speech, lesbian and gay rights, abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, and animals and the environment.

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Talbot

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McDonnell / 362

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The Immigrant Experience

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Darnell

Dec 18 2017 10:30AM - 12:30PM

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Early Political Thought: Text and Tradition

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A selected survey of the political and moral thought of Europe from the rise of Athenian democracy to the Renaissance, with emphasis on analysis and discussion of writers such as Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Castiglione, and Machiavelli. The course aims to introduce students to basic texts in the intellectual history of Western Europe, understood both as products of a particular time and place and as self-contained arguments that strive to instruct and persuade. The texts are simultaneously used to chart the careers of such fundamental notions as liberty, virtue, and justice. Preference given to Text and Tradition and IPH students.

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Clancy

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Social Inequality in America

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Topics in American Culture Studies: American Democracy, from Tocqueville to Trump

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American democracy is in crisis. Unless it's flourishing. Or maybe both. Whatever the case, diagnosing the status of democracy in the United States requires more than understanding today's headlines. Stepping back from contemporary debates, this seminar will examine the long history of American democracy from the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the opening days of the Trump administration. Some of the topics covered will include the tangled histories of slavery and freedom, the shifting boundaries of citizenship, the relationship between economic and political equality, the origins of political polarization, and the character of the American state. Grappling with these subjects raises a host of other issues. Is the United States a democracy today? Should it be one tomorrow? Was it ever really a democracy in the first place? This course will not supply answers to those questions, but it will provide you with tools to think about them for yourself.

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Shenk

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Biomedical Ethics

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Kurth

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Baril

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Gardner

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Introduction to Environmental Ethics

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Freshman Seminar: The Nuremberg Trials and International Justice

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This course is an exercise in understanding how professional historians and the general public discover and use the past. The main goals of this course are to understand the many different methods and standards applied to the past; to understand how and why each generation changes the past as it seeks to make it "usable"; and to develop the skills of exposition and argumentation necessary to describe and analyze complex historical issues and to express critical ideas effectively. The subject of this inquiry will be the Nuremberg trials - the innovations and critiques around the law and politics of the trials themselves, as well as the trials' legacies for ideas about international justice in postwar America and the world. Course requirements include a 15 page research paper and a series of short reaction papers to the assigned readings.

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Exploring Inequality: The Social and Structural Analysis of Modern American Life

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What would it mean to engage in effective social and structural analysis of the complex problems of modern American life that are so often reduced by policy makers to matters of individual choice and personal responsibility? This is an urgent question at a historical moment when American society is becoming more diverse and more unequal. Through a sociological lens, this course explores key areas of inequality: social class and poverty, racism and sexism, the crisis in health care, and the perils of globalization. We examine empirical underpinnings of these areas focusing on the intersection of statuses related to race, social class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality that heighten risk for social and political disadvantages. Our investigation capitalizes on rich sources of multidisciplinary data and methods. These sources offer a foundation for an original research project allowing students to gain an understanding of the complexity of social problems emanating from inequality, and productive intellectual and policy responses. Guests from agencies dealing directly with these issues will share perspectives. Students will emerge from the course with critical skills that empower them to decipher contemporary policy debates and develop their own critical analyses.

A&S IQ: SC, SD, SSC BU: BA EN: S

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Lindsey

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Undergraduate Internship in Legal Studies

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Students receive credit for a faculty-directed and approved internship. Registration requires completion of the Learning Agreement which the student obtains from the Career Center and which must be filled out and signed by the Career Center and the faculty sponsor prior to beginning internship work. Credit should correspond to actual time spent in work activities, e.g., 8-10 hours a week for 13 or 14 weeks to receive 3 units of credit; 1 or 2 credits for fewer hours. Students may not receivecredit for work done for pay but are encouraged to obtain written evaluations about such work for the student's academic adviser and and career placement file. Permission of instructor required.

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Lovett

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Biblical Law and the Origins of Western Justice

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Barmash

Dec 18 2017 10:30AM - 12:30PM

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Topics in Composition: Writing and the Law

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Most legal practice consists not of fine oratory but rather of great writing. However, it is not only lawyers who need to be able to incorporate the law into their professional practice: in this course, we will look at the many different types of writing in and about the law to see how the principles of rhetoric must be used to persuade in different ways depending on the writer's purpose. We will learn the skills necessary to adapt the framing of our writing to its audience as we think about how we might persuade a judge, a lay client, a community, a committee or other professionals. We will consider the psychological effects of our writing and how we seek to persuade our readers not only with the strength of our reasoning but with the power of our emotional appeal to their particular interests. We will learn how to think and write about the law in a range of circumstances as assignments cover writing for business about implications of laws, reporting about a law for the popular press, investigating a legal issue and explaining a law's ramifications as well as attempting to encourage support for a particular law; this is not, however, a technical legal writing course. Readings will be drawn from statutes and judgments but more commonly from academic, business and popular examples of writing on the interpretation of laws governing topical concerns. Issues to be dealt with may include the extent of police/citizens' rights to protect themselves (so-called Stand Your Ground laws); rights to refuse medical treatment (Cruzan v Director, Missouri Dept of Health); religious groups' rights to discriminate (The Religious Freedom Restoration Act); Open Carry laws (St. Louis Zoo v Smith); immigration proposals such as The Dream Act; reform of mandatory prison sentences.

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Virtues, Vices, Values: Regulating Morality in Modern America

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This course takes morality and the question of "what's right" seriously as a lens through which to understand and assess modern American history. "Morality" is, of course, a devilishly flexible rhetoric, a language invoked to tell people how to act and how to be good, or, conversely, to criticize and to shame. When the state or a community wants its citizens or members to be "good," it crafts laws and creates customs to encourage or inhibit behaviors. This class examines how state and non-state actors have attempted to regulate the lived experiences of Americans and the conflicts that emerge over what, exactly, is correct, or right, or good for individuals, society, and the state. It interrogates what values the state impresses upon its citizens and what values citizens want the state to uphold.

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L57 315 L22 3155 L23 315 L98 315B

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Theories of Social Justice

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Lovett

Dec 18 2017 3:30PM - 5:30PM

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Classical Ethical Theories

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Kurth

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Social and Political Philosophy

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Study of certain fundamental issues concerning government, society, and culture. For example: what are the nature and limits of legitimate political authority? Are ordinary human beings capable of governing themselves justly? Do citizens have a duty to obey the state? If so, to what extent, if at all, is that duty grounded in consent or contract? Should the state limit or regulate the personal relationships of citizens, such as marriage, family, and sexuality? How should social institutions rectify a history of political or social injustice against oppressed groups? Readings from historical and contemporary sources. Prereqs: one course in Philosophy at the 100 or 200-level, or permission of the instructor. Priority given to majors in Philosophy & PNP.

A&S IQ: HUM Art: HUM BU: ETH, HUM EN: H

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Wellman

Dec 20 2017 1:00PM - 3:00PM

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Nakissa

Dec 20 2017 6:00PM - 8:00PM

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Legal Conflict in Modern American Society

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Thousands of lawsuits are filed daily in the state and federal courts of the United States. The disputes underlying those lawsuits are as messy and complex as the human, commercial, cultural and political dynamics that trigger them, and the legal processes and analytical constructs for resolving those disputes are expensive, time-consuming and, for most citizens, seemingly impenetrable. At the same time law and legal conflict permeate public discourse in the United States to a degree that is unique in the world, even among the community of long-established democracies. The overarching objective of the course is to prepare our undergraduate students to participate constructively in that discourse by providing them with a conceptual framework for understanding both the conduct and resolution of legal conflict by American legal institutions, and the evolution of - - and values underlying - - the substantive law American courts apply to those conflicts. This is, at core, a course in the kind of legal or litigation "literacy" that should be expected of the graduates of first-tier American universities. Some of the legal controversies that will be used to help develop that "literacy" include those surrounding the permissible use of lethal force in self-defense, the constitutionality of affirmative action in university admissions, the enforceability of presidential travel bans; contracts that are unconscionably one-sided, sexual harassment in the workplace, the duty of landlords to prevent criminal assaults on their tenants, groundwater pollution alleged to cause pediatric cancers, and warrantless searches of cellphone locator data by police. Sophomore standing is strongly recommended for enrollment in this course. Attendance mandatory during the first week of classes.

A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: BA, ETH, HUM EN: H

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L98 3507 L30 3507 L32 3507

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Dec 18 2017 10:30AM - 12:30PM

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Law, Gender, and Justice

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This course (formerly called "Women and the Law") explores how social constructions of gender, race, class, and sexuality have shaped traditional legal reasoning and American legal concepts, including women's legal rights. We will begin by placing our current legal framework, and its gender, race, sexuality, and other societal assumptions, in an historical and Constitutional context. We will then examine many of the questions raised by feminist theory, feminist jurisprudence, and other critical perspectives. For example, is the legal subject gendered male, and, if so, how can advocates (or women and men) use the law to gain greater equality? What paradoxes have emerged in areas such as employment discrimination, family law, or reproductive rights, as women and others have sought liberal equality? What is the equality/difference debate about and why is it important for feminists? How do intersectionality and various schools of feminist thought affect our concepts of discrimination, equality, and justice? The course is thematic, but we will spend time on key cases that have influenced law and policy, examining how they affect the everyday lives of women. Over the years, this course has attracted WGSS students and pre-law students. This course is taught by law students under the supervision of a member of the School of Law faculty.. STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN L77 3561 WOMEN AND THE LAW CAN NOT TAKE THIS CLASS.

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L77 3561 L98 3561 U92 3561

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Tokarz

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The Wheels of Commerce: From the Industrial Revolution to Global Capitalism

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John Maynard Keynes once said, "The ideas of economists and political philosophers both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist." In this course we will focus our attention on the blind spot that Keynes so astutely identified. We will study seminal works in the history of political economy (Smith, Malthus, Marx, Keynes, Krugman, etc.) and explore the social, economic, and political histories in which they were grounded. We will begin with the Industrial Revolution in Britain, the works of Adam Smith, and the emergence of political economy as a field of inquiry. We will end with the globalization of the 1970s, the works of Joseph Stiglitz, and the challenges that a more interconnected world has posed for both the organization of the economy and the practice of economics as a discipline. Modern, Europe.

A&S IQ: HUM, LCD BU: BA, HUM, IS EN: H

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L22 3593 L97 3594

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America in the Age of Inequality: The Gilded Age & the Progressive Era, 1877-1919

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This course will explore dramatic changes in American society during the half-century from the Civil War to the end of WWI. We will discuss industrialization; mass immigration from Europe, Asia and Latin America; the vast movement of rural people to cities; the fall of Reconstruction and rise of Jim Crow; the expansion of organized labor; birth of American Socialism; and the rise of the American empire in the Caribbean and the Philippines. The course will, in addition, analyze the many and varied social reform efforts of the turn of the twentieth century, from women's suffrage to anti-lynching campaigns; from trust-busting and anti-immigrant crusades to the settlement house movement. Modern, U.S.

A&S IQ: HUM Art: HUM BU: BA, HUM EN: H

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L22 367 L98 367 U16 3673

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Garb

Dec 18 2017 10:30AM - 12:30PM

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Law, Religion, and Politics

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Inazu

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Social Theory and Anthropology

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Advanced Seminar: Historical Perspectives on Human Rights

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Students registering for this course must also register for L22 49IR/14 for 1 unit.

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Independent Study

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Lovett

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