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Legal Studies
27 Merrill College
(831) 459-2056
e-mail: legal_studies@ucsc.edu
http://politics.ucsc.edu/
Program Description
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Descriptions
Legal studies is an interdisciplinary program, offered under
the auspices of the Politics Department, that is designed for students
who wish to use the methods and perspectives of various academic disciplines
to study legal issues and to use the conceptual framework of the law
to illuminate empirical and theoretical concerns in the various disciplines.
For example, a student might use approaches from psychology and philosophy
to study the legal problem of punishment or draw on doctrinal categories
from public and private law to study the changing historical role
of market and nonmarket relations within ongoing institutions.
Legal studies is intended to appeal to students who wish to take
a concentration of courses on the law from a variety of disciplinary
and methodological perspectives. The major is not intended as a
substitute or preparation for any part of a law school curriculum
but rather as a full field of study within the liberal arts curriculum.
As such, it is a good preparation for a variety of future activities.
Students graduating in legal studies are particularly well qualified
to pursue graduate work on legal topics in humanities and social
science disciplines or to attend professional school in fields such
as public policy, business administration, social work, and law.
The legal studies program offers a minor as well as the major.
As a part of the declaration of major process, students choose a
coherent program of study and have it approved by the legal studies
academic adviser. An outline of the elements of such a program follows.
Legal Studies 10. All legal
studies majors are required to take course 10, Introduction to
Legal Process.
Philosophy 9, 22, or 24. All
legal studies majors are required to take one course chosen from
Philosophy 9, 22, or 24. (See the Philosophy section in this catalog
for course descriptions.)
Although these courses are not prerequisites for most upper-division
courses, the faculty strongly recommend that students complete these
lower-division requirements early in their program of study.
Core courses
Students are required to take six core courses, three in each of
two of the five concentration areas below.
Theory
Legal Studies
105A Ancient Political Thought
105B Ancient Political Thought
105C Ancient Political Thought
107 Political Morality of Survivorship and Recovery
110 Law and Social Issues
144 Social and Political Philosophy
146 Philosophy of Law
151 Identity, Sacrifice, and Law
157 Sovereignty and Law
Public Law and Institutions
Legal Studies
111 Problems in Constitutional Law
120A Congress, President, and the Court in American Politics
125 Civil Liberties in the Age of Terrorism
131 Water, Wildlife, and Natural Resources Law
132 California Water Law and Policy
134 Property rights and Natural Resources Law
136 Federal Indian Law and Tribal Sovereignty
137 International Environmental Law and Policy
139 War Crimes
149 Environmental Law and Policy
152 Courts and Litigation
155 Topics in American Legal History
156 Administrative Jurisprudence
174 International Law
Politics
112 Women and the Law
Law and Society
Legal Studies
118 Political Anthropology
120A Congress, President, and the Court in American Politics
120B Society and Democracy in American Political Development
127 Black Politics and Federal Social Policy
133 Law of Democracy
142 Anthropology of Law
147A Psychology and Law
147B Psychology and Law
150 Children and the Law
154 The Legal Profession
169 Economic Analysis of the Law
172 The Sociology of Law
173 Law, Crime, and Social Justice
180 Power, Politics, and Protest
Law and Culture
Legal Studies
107 Political Morality of Survivorship and Recovery
118 Political Anthropology
120B Society and Democracy in American Political Development
138 Law and Literature
142 Anthropology of Law
155 Topics in American Legal History
180 Power, Politics, and Protest
Law and Political Economy
Legal Studies
120C State and Capitalism in American Political Development
128 Poverty and Public Policy
129 Political Economy of Policy Reform
160 Industrial Organization
162 Legal Environment of Business
169 Economic Analysis of the Law
183 Women in the Economy
Electives
Two additional courses are to be selected from the list of courses
above or from the following:
Legal Studies
193 Field Study
194 Group Tutorial
195A-B-C Senior Thesis
199 Tutorial
Students interested in working on original research under the
supervision of a faculty member may write a senior thesis. Before
beginning work on the thesis, students are required to obtain the
approval of a faculty sponsor.
Legal Studies 196. Students
satisfy the senior comprehensive requirement by taking, in their
senior year, either course 196, Senior Capstone; one proseminar
from a designated list; or an equivalent seminar approved in advance
by the legal studies academic adviser. (The list of designated proseminars
is available in the Legal Studies Program Office.) The capstone
course is designed to provide an interdisciplinary integration of
themes related to the study of law and includes a substantial writing
requirement. Students who have not already completed or been guaranteed
admission into a proseminar by the beginning of the quarter in which
the capstone course is offered will be required to take the capstone
course.
To complete a minor in legal studies, a student must take
Legal Studies 10 and any four upper-division legal studies core
courses.
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