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Legal Studies
27 Merrill College
(831) 459-2056
legalstudies@ucsc.edu
http://zzyx.ucsc.edu/Pol/legal.html
Program Description | Faculty
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Program Description
Legal studies is an interdisciplinary program offered
under the auspices of the Politics Department. It 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; or use approaches from critical race theory and
feminist studies to better understand matters of civil rights and privacy.
To complete the major, students are required to take
courses in legal institutions, constitutional law, and international law, as
well as take courses in each of three broad themes: legal theory and
philosophy, the role of law in society, and legal institutions. Each of these
themes is intentionally broadly defined. Within legal theory, students may take
courses in legal jurisprudence, logic, and theories of crime and punishment;
within law and society, courses range from feminism and race to psychology and
economics; within public law and institutions, courses range from environmental
law to human rights law to an introduction to litigation. Students are also
expected to take an introductory course in philosophy as well as a senior
writing seminar.
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.
Students are also encouraged to participate in field work and law-related
internships in the community, and to develop their own extensive independent
research projects.
Declaring the major in legal studies is a three-step
process: (1) attend a declaration orientation workshop; (2) meet with your
faculty adviser; (3) meet with the legal studies undergraduate adviser. Each
student meets with an assigned faculty adviser to discuss an intended program
of study, including its breadth and purpose.
The legal studies program offers a minor degree as well
as the major degree.
Requirements for the Major
Legal Studies 10 Introduction to
Legal Process
Philosophy 9, 22, or 24. All legal studies majors are
required to take one of the three listed Philosophy courses. (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.
Legal Studies 111A Constitutional Law or
Legal Studies
111B Civil Liberties
Legal Studies 174 International
Law
Students are required to take six core courses, two
in each of three concentrations: Theory, Public Law and Institutions, and Law
and Society.
Theory
103 Feminist Interventions
(Politics course)
105A Ancient Political
Thought
105B Early Modern Political
Thought
105C Modern Political Thought
106 Marxism as a Method
107 Political Morality of
Survivorship and Recovery
109 Orientalism
(Politics course)
144 Social and Political
Philosophy
146 Philosophy of Law
155 Topics in American
Legal History
157 Political Jurisprudence
Public Law and Institutions
111A Problems in
Constitutional Law
111B Civil Liberties
116 Comparative Law
120A Congress, President, and
the Court in American Politics
120C State and Capitalism in
American Political Development
128 Poverty and Public
Policy
131 Wildlife, Wilderness,
and the Law
132 California Water Law and Policy
133 Law of Democracy
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
159 Property and the Law
174 International Law
Law and Society
107 Political Morality of
Survivorship and
Recovery
110 Law and Social Issues
112 Women and the Law (Politics)
113 Gay Rights and the Law
118 Political Anthropology
120B Society and Democracy in
American Political
Development
120C State and Capitalism in
American Political Development
126 Law and Politics in
Contemporary Japan and
East Asian Societies
126I Race and Criminal
Justice
127 Black Politics and
Federal Social Policy
138 Law and Literature
142 Anthropology of Law
147A Psychology and Law
147B Psychology and Law
150 Children and the Law
154 The Legal Profession
155 Topics in American
Legal History
160 Industrial Organization
162 Legal Environment of
Business
169 Economic Analysis of
the Law
172 The Sociology of Law
173 Law, Crime, and Social
Justice
180 Power, Politics, and
Protest
183 Women in the Economy
Students can satisfy the comprehensive requirement in
the legal studies major by successfully completing one of the following:
195A, B, C, Senior Thesis. Completion of a senior thesis project of
approximately 50 pages with a substantial research content, supervised by a
legal studies faculty member with a second reader.
196 Senior Capstone. The
capstone course is designed to provide an interdisciplinary integration of
themes related to the study of law and includes a substantial writing
requirement.
Requirements for the Minor
To complete a minor in legal studies, a student must
take Legal Studies 10 and any five upper-division legal studies core courses.
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