Law and Society

SAME AS LWSOC-UA 1.

Course meets in person

Critically examines the relationship between law and political and social movements such as the civil rights movement, the women?s movement, and the labor and environmental movements. Emphasis on law as a political process and legal remedies for racial and gender discrimination and class action torts. Deals with the politics of rights and the limits and possibilities of law as a process for social change.