Sociology of Law:

$SAME AS G62.1103

Non Sociology PhD Students: Please obtain instructor's permission and email Department of Sociology for consent.

Theoretical perspectives and research strategies in the sociology of law. Topics include the development of legal norms, legal participation and litigiousness, law and dispute resolution, the courts, the organization of public law enforcement, the legal profession, the relationship between social and legal change, and the use of law in social engineering.