COSF 139A-B: Law, Communication, and Freedom of Expression (4) An examination of the legal framework of the freedom of expression in the United States. 139A covers the fundamentals of First Amendment law through the consideration of key cases in historical context. Prior restraint, incitement, obscenity, libel, fighting words, public forum, commercial speech, and hate speech are some of the topics covered. 139B focuses on the law of mass communication, examining the different legal treatments accorded print, broadcasting, cable, and common carriers. The decline of broadcast regulation, the breakup of AT&T, the rise of new forms of mass communication, and the question of the public interest are of central concern. Prerequisites: 139A-COSF 100 or PS 40 or consent of instructor. 139B-COSF 100 or PS 40, COSF 139A preferred.
CGS 106: Gender Equality and the Law (4) Explores the legal treatment of discrimination on the basis of gender, including equal protection doctrine and some statutory law such as Title VII. Topics include the meaning of gender equality in such areas as single-sex education, military service, sexual harassment, discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, and other current issues. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
CGS 107: Gender and Reproductive Rights (4) Legal treatment of gender, reproductive rights, and the family, particularly as evolving law, primarily in the U.S., has created conflicting rights, roles, and responsibilities. Topics include abortion, fetal rights, surrogacy, marriage, and child custody issues. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
DOC 2: Dimensions of Culture: Justice (6) This course considers the nature of justice in philosophical, historical, and legal terms. Topics include racial justice, political representation, economic justice, gender and justice, the rights of cultural minorities, and crime and punishment. The course offers intensive instruction in writing university-level expository prose. Three hours of lecture, two hours of discussion and writing instruction. Open to Marshall College students only. (Letter grade only.) Prerequisite: completion of UC Entry Level Writing requirement. (W)
ECON 118: Law and Economics: Torts, Property, and Crime (4) Uses economic theory to evaluate the economic effects of U.S. law in several legal fields, including tort law (accidents), products liability law, property law, criminal law (law enforcement), and litigation. Also considers risk bearing and why people buy insurance. Renumbered from ECON 118A. Credit not allowed for both ECON 118 and ECON 118A. Prerequisites: ECON 1A-B or 2 or 100A; and Math. 10A or 20A.
ECON 119: Law and Economics: Contracts and Corporations (4) Uses economic theory to evaluate the economic effects of U.S. law in contract law, corporate law (how large firms are organized and governed), debtor-creditor law, and bankruptcy law. ECON 110C and 118 are recommended. Prerequisite: ECON 100B or 170B.
ENVR 110: Environmental Law (4) Explores environmental policy in the United States and the ways in which it is reflected in law. The social and political issues addressed include environmental justice and environmental racism, as well as the role of government in implementing environmental law. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
ETHN 152: Law and Civil Rights (4) In this course students explore the relationship between race, class, and law as it applies to civil rights both in an historical and a contemporary context. Topics include racism and the law, history of the 14th Amendment, equal protection, school desegregation, and affirmative action.
HISC 131: Science, Technology, and Law (4) Science and law are two of the most powerful establishments of modern Western culture. Science organizes our knowledge of the world; law directs our action in it. Will explore the historical roots of the interplay between them. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
HIUS 150: American Legal History to 1865 (4) The history of American law and legal institutions. This quarter focuses on crime and punishment in the colonial era, the emergence of theories of popular sovereignty, the forging of the Constitution and American federalism, the relationship between law and economic change, and the crisis of slavery and Union. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
HIUS 151: American Legal History since 1865 (4) The history of American law and legal institutions. This course examines race relations and law, the rise of big business, the origins of the modern welfare state during the Great Depression, the crisis of civil liberties produced by two world wars and McCarthyism, and the Constitutional revolution wrought by the Warren Court. HIUS 150 is not a prerequisite for HIUS 151. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
HIUS 152A: A Constitutional History of the United States to 1865 (4) The historical development of constitutional thought and practice in the United States from the era of the American Revolution through the Civil War, with special attention to the role of the Supreme Court under Chief Justices Marshall and Taney. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
HIUS 152B: A Constitutional History of the United States Since 1865 (4) The historical development of constitutional thought and practice in the United States since 1865, with special attention to the role of the Supreme Court from Chief Justices Chase to Renquist. Prerequisite; upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
HIUS 153: American Political Trials (4) Survey of politicized criminal trials and impeachments from Colonial times to the 1880s. Examines politically-motived prosecutions and trials that became subjects of political controversy, were exploited by defendants for political purposes, or had their outcomes determined by political considerations.
HIUS 155A: Religion and Law in American History: Foundations to the Civil War (4) Selected problems in the history of the relationship between religious beliefs and practice and legal institutions in the Anglo-American world. Topics include the English background, religion in the age of the American Revolution and the antebellum period. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
HIUS 155B: Religion and Law in American History: Civil War to the Present (4) Selected problems in the history of the relationship between religious beliefs and practice and legal institutions in America from the Civil War to the present. Topics include the religion and government aid; sacred duties and the law; and religion and cultural politics. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
HIUS 169: Topics in American Legal and Constitutional History (4) A reading and discussion course on topics that vary from year to year, including American federalism, the history of civil liberties, and the Supreme Court. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
LAWS 101: Contemporary Legal Issues (4) This course will deal in depth each year with a different legal issue of contemporary significance, viewed from the perspectives of political science, history, sociology, and philosophy. Required for students completing the law and society minor. May be repeated for credit once, for a maximum total of eight units. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
LAWS 102S: Crimes, Civil Wrongs, and Constitution (4) Through lectures and discussions on several controversial topics, students are introduced to the subjects taught in the first year of law school. They learn briefing, case analysis, and the Socratic method of instruction, engage in role-playing exercises, and take law-school examinations. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
LING 105: Law and Language (4) The interpretation of language in understanding the law: 1) the language of courtroom interaction (hearsay, jury instructions); 2) written legal language (contracts, ambiguity, legal fictions); 3) language-based issues in the law (First Amendment, libel and slander).
LING 176: Language of Politics and Advertising (4) How can we explain the difference between what is literally said versus what is actually conveyed in the language of law, politics, and advertising? How people’s ordinary command of language and their reasoning skills are used to manipulate them.
PHIL 10: Introduction to Logic (4) Basic concepts and techniques in both informal and formal logic and reasoning, including a discussion of argument, inference, proof, and common fallacies, and an introduction to the syntax, semantics, and proof method in sentential (propositional) logic. (May be used to fulfill general-education requirements for Warren and Eleanor Roosevelt Colleges.)
PHIL 12: Logic and Decision Making (4) An introduction to the study of probability, inductive logic, scientific reasoning, and rational choice among competing hypotheses and alternative courses of action when the evidence is incomplete or uncertain. (May be used to fulfill general-education requirements for Marshall, Warren, and Eleanor Roosevelt Colleges.)
PHIL 162: Contemporary Moral Issues (4) An examination of contemporary moral issues, such as abortion, euthanasia, war, affirmative action, and freedom of speech. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
PHIL 163: Biomedical Ethics (4) Moral issues in medicine and the biological sciences, such as patient’s rights and physician’s responsibilities, abortion and euthanasia, the distribution of health care, experimentation, and genetic intervention. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
PHIL 167: Contemporary Political Philosophy (4) Different perspectives on central issues in contemporary political philosophy, such as the nature of state authority and political obligation, the limits of government and individual liberty, liberalism and its critics, equality and distributive justice. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
PHIL 168: Philosophy of Law (4) A study of issues in analytical jurisprudence such as the nature of law, the relation between law and morality, and the nature of legal interpretation and issues in normative jurisprudence such as the justification of punishment, paternalism and privacy, freedom of expression, and affirmative action. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
POLI 13: Power and Justice (4) An exploration of the relationship between power and justice in modern society. Materials include classic and contemporary texts, films and literature.
POLI 40: Introduction to Law and Society (4) This course is designed as a broad introduction to the study of law as a social institution and its relations to other institutions in society. The focus will be less on the substance of law (legal doctrine and judicial opinions) than on the process of law–how legal rules both reflect and shape basic social values and their relation to social, political, and economic conflicts within society.
POLI 104A: The Supreme Court and the Constitution (4) An introduction to the study of the Supreme Court and constitutional doctrine. Topics will include the nature of judicial review, federalism, race, and equal protection. The relation of judicial and legislative power will also be examined.
POLI 104B: Civil Liberties - Fundamental Rights (4) This course will examine issues of civil liberties from both legal and political perspectives. Topics will include the First Amendment rights of speech, press, assembly, and religion; other “fundamental” rights, such as the right to privacy; and some issues in equal protection. Conflicts between governmental powers and individual rights will be examined.
POLI 104C: Civil Liberties - The Rights of Criminals and Minorities (4) Examines the legal issues surrounding the rights of “marginal” groups such as aliens, illegal immigrants, and the mentally ill. Also includes a discussion of the nature of discrimination in American society.
POLI 104D: Judicial Politics (4) Introduction to the study of law and courts as political institutions and judges as political actors, including the role of the judiciary in our constitutional system and decision making both within the Supreme Court and within the judicial hierarchy.
POLI 104F: Seminar in Constitutional Law (4) This seminar will provide an intensive examination of a major issue in constitutional law, with topics varying from year to year. Recent topics have included equal protection law and the rights of civilians in wartime. Students will be required to do legal research on a topic, write a legal brief, and argue a case to the seminar. Prerequisites: PS 104A/B; department stamp.
POLI 104I: Law and Politics - Courts and Political Controversy (4) This course will examine the role of the courts in dealing with issues of great political controversy, with attention to the rights of speech and assembly during wartime, questions of internal security, and the expression of controversial views on race and religion. The conflict between opposing Supreme Court doctrines on these issues will be explored in the context of the case studies drawn from different historical periods.
POLI 104L: Positive Political Theory of Law (4) We will discuss modern theories of the origins of law and legal behavior.
POLI 104M: Law and Sex (4) How law regulates and impacts sexuality and orientation with focus on constitutional law in areas of privacy, free speech, association, regulation of sexual conduct under criminal law pornography, procreation, reproductive rights, and regulation of family status. Prerequisite: upper-division standing. Credit will not be allowed for students who have taken Political Science 102G Law and Sex in the following quarters: spring 2002, (section A00); spring 2001 (section A00); fall 1999 (section A00).
POLI 140A: International Law and Organizations (4) International law and organizations are central to the efforts to create a world order to limit armed conflict, regulate world economy, and advance programs for economic redistribution among nations, and set minimum standards of human rights. This course explains the theory of international law and organizations that is accepted by diplomats and compares this viewpoint to the analysis of social scientists concerning the past record and likely future of world order concerning conflict, economic redistribution, and human rights.
POLI 145A: International Politics and Drugs (4) This course examines the domestic and international aspects of the drug trade. It will investigate the drug issues from the perspectives of consumers, producers, traffickers, money launderers, and law enforcement. Course material covers the experience of the United States, Latin America, Turkey, Southeast Asia, Western Europe, and Japan.
POLI 150A: Politics of Immigration (4) Comparative analysis of attempts by the United States, western Europe, and Japan to initiate, regulate and reduce immigration from Third World countries. Social and economic factors shaping outcomes of immigration policies, public opinion toward immigrants, anti-immigration movements, and immigration policy reform options in industrializedcountries.
PSYC 162: Psychology and the Law (4) Research dealing with psychological factors in the legal system will be surveyed. Particular emphasis will be placed on applying psychological theory and methods to the criminal justice system in an attempt to understand the behavior of its participants. Prerequisite: Psychology 60 and 104.
SOC/L 50: Introduction to Law and Society (4) Interrelationships between law and society, in the U.S. and other parts of the world. We examine law’s norms, customs, culture, and institutions, and explain the proliferation of lawyers in the U.S. and the expansion of legal “rights” worldwide.
SOC/B 120S: Special Topics in Culture, Language, and Social Interaction (4) This course will examine key issues in culture, language, and social interaction. Content will vary from year to year. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
SOC/B 142: Social Deviance (4) This course studies the major forms of behavior seen as rule violations by large segments of our society and analyzes the major theories trying to explain them, as well as processes of rule making, rule enforcing, techniques of neutralization, stigmatization and status degradation, and rule change. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
SOC/B 145: Violence and Society (4) Focusing on American history, this course explores violence in the light of three major themes: struggles over citizenship and nationhood; the drawing and maintenance of racial, ethnic, and gender boundaries; and the persistence of notions of “masculinity” and its relation to violence. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
SOC/B 146: Law Enforcement in America (4) Provides a sociological understanding of policing in practice in the United States. Examines the social, political, and historical forces behind the development and shaping of policing in America—including the functions of police, the “working personality” of police officers, as well as police misconduct and its control. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
SOC/B 160L: Law and Culture (4) This course examines major formulations of the relationship between law and culture in the sociological literature. Topics include formal law versus embedded law, law and morality, law and the self, legal consciousness, the rule of law, and the construction of legality. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
SOC/B 173: Elite Crime (4) Explores theoretical and conceptual dimensions in the analysis of the systematic violation of the laws and ethics of business and politics in the United States. Covers a range of illegal and unethical practices, the social and political advantages of such violators, as well as the historical bias in both theory and research that has contributed to our lack of understanding of such issues in sociology and criminology. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
SOC/C 152: Social Inequality and Public Policy (4) (Same as USP 133.) Primary focus on understanding and analyzing poverty and public policy. Analysis of how current debates and public policy initiatives mesh with alternative social scientific explorations of poverty. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
SOC/C 140: Sociology of Law (4) This course analyzes the functions of law in society, the social sources of legal change, social conditions affecting the administration of justice, and the role of social science in jurisprudence. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
SOC/C 140F: Law and the Workplace (4) This course examines how the U.S. legal system has responded to workplace inequality and demands for employee rights. Particular attention is given to racial, gender, religious, and disability discrimination, as well as the law’s role in regulating unions, the global economy, and sweatshop labor. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
SOC/C 141: Crime and Society (4) A study of the social origins of criminal law, the administration of justice, causes and patterns of criminal behavior, and the prevention and control of crime, including individual rehabilitation and institutional change, and the politics of legal, police, and correctional reform. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
SOC/C 144: Forms of Social Control (4) The organization, development, and mission of social control agencies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with emphasis on crime and madness; agency occupations (police, psychiatrists, correctional work, etc.); theories of control movements. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
SOC/C 159: Special Topics in Social Organizations and Institutions (4) Readings and discussion of particular substantive issues and research in the sociology of organizations and institutions–including such areas as population, economy, education, family, medicine, law, politics, and religion. Topics will vary from year to year. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
SOC/C 163: Migration and the Law (4) Provides a global sociological perspective on the development and consequences of laws regulating migration within and across nation-state borders. The ability of the nation-state to control migration using law and its policy instruments. The effects of different legal statuses on political and socio-economic outcomes. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
USP 124: Land Use Planning (4) Introduction to land use planning in the United States: zoning and subdivision, regulation, growth management, farmland preservation, environmental protection, and comprehensive planning. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.