In this Department  Core Courses Catalog  Main Page General Information  College of Arts and Sciences  Conservatory of Music Double Degree Program  Other Links  Course Syllabi  Registrar's Office Office/Departmental Directory  Arts and Sciences Main Page Law and Society The Curricular Committee on Law and Society administers a cross-disciplinary Law and Society major, fosters the general study of issues regarding law and society throughout the college, and encourages public presentations by visiting scholars, jurists, and lawyers. The recommended core law and society courses and research seminars, and the law-related courses, explore philosophical, political, economic, historical, sociological, ethical, scientific, and religious issues that are central to understanding the role of law and legal institutions in society. Core law and society courses are selected with the following objectives in mind: 1) center on law and legal institutions directly; 2) explore the historical, philosophical, and ethical underpinnings of the development of law, thought, and institutions; and/or 3) provide the analytic skills necessary to understand the logic and bases of legal thinking as a language in legal institutions, the broader society, and the profession of law. Core research seminars and private reading/research courses provide to students forums to undertake research papers which meet the above objectives. Law-related courses have sections within them that meet at least one of the three objectives that are listed above or provide students an opportunity to write a term paper in which the scholarly issues of the course may be applied to legal institutions, thought, and/or the logic of legal inquiry. Major. The major consists of at least thirty hours of courses; no more than 8 hours may be taken at the introductory level; no more than 15 hours may be taken away from campus. A minimum of four core courses (at least 12 hours) and at least three additional law-related or core courses (at least 9 hours) is required in the major. In addition, at least one core research seminar, and a private reading-research course on a law-related topic, or a second core research seminar in place of the private reading/research course, is required of all majors. Finally, no more than 15 of the first 30 hours of the major may be taken in one department. Core courses or seminars must be completed in at least three departments. Students must have two advisors from different departments and complete a major registration form, including a rationale for the major, which is submitted to the Chair of the Law and Society Committee for approval by the Law and Society Committee. Minor. Students may pursue a minor in Law and Society by completing at least fifteen hours of work. At least three core courses (in at least two departments) and two additional law-related and/or core courses must be completed as part of the minor. Students wishing to discuss the Law and Society major, to secure a major registration form, a list of current curricular committee members, or to gain approval for a minor, please contact Ronald Kahn, Chair, Law and Society Curricular Committee, Department of Politics, Rice 232. back to top Core Courses Chemistry 145 Chemistry and Crime Economics 224 Law and Economics 253 Intermediate Microeconomics History 259 Revolutionary America and the Early Republic Philosophy 105 Philosophy and Values 200 Deductive Logic 201 The Analysis of Reasoning 226 Social, Political and Legal Philosophy Politics 103 Political Change in America 202 American Constitutional Law 204 American Environmental Law 233 American Political Theory 982 British Constitutional Law and Individual Rights Religion 245 Moral Issues in Religious Perspective 249 Issues in Medical Ethics Sociology 123 Deviance, Discord, and Dismay 271 Sociology of Law and Legal Institutions 273 Criminology, Delinquency, and Legal Policy 331 Torts, Trials, and Troubles -- The Social Origins of Law Core Research Seminars Economics 432 Seminar in the Economics of Discrimination Philosophy 342 Seminar: Moralized Violence and Meaningful Life 364 Seminar: Individual Responsibility Politics 266 Seminar in First Amendment 300 Seminar in Contemporary Constitutional Theory 321 Seminar in International Politics: International Human Rights & Law 334 Seminar: Justice and Democracy in Contemporary America Religion 340 Seminar: Ethical Issues in Death and Dying Sociology 472 Sociology of Law Seminar Law-Related Courses Classics 103 History of Greece 104 History of Rome 206 Greek and Roman Drama in Translation Economics 206 Financial Management 219 Labor-Management Relations 225 Political Economy of European Integration 231 Environmental Economics 313 Games and Strategy in Economics 317 Industrial Organization 322 Welfare Economics and Paradoxes of Cooperation 323 Public Sector Economics 331 Economics of Land, Location and the Environment 335 The Economics of Organization English 270 Scene of the Crime: Crime Stories in American Film 372 Contemporary Literary Theory in American Culture History 147 Women's Lives, Women's Activism 253 Recent America: The United States Since World War II 254 The Emergence of Modern America, 1885-1920 257 American Intellectual History, 1860 to the Present 263 The American Civil War and Reconstruction 263 Aliens and Citizens 266 Women and Social Movements in the United States 319 Crime and Punishment in Early-Modern Europe 390 Slavery, Antislavery and Emancipation in American History Philosophy 204 Ethics Politics 203 Congress: Politics and Policy-making 231 European Political Theory: Classical to Early Modern 232 European Political Theory: Hobbes to Marx Psychology 214 Abnormal Psychology 218 Social Psychology 410 Seminar: Personality/Social Psychology Religion 247 Feminist Ethical Issues Theater 362 Art on Trial back to top