GOVT 4315 - Law and Society

Credit(s): 3

This course examines the theory and practice of legal institutions in performing several major functions, including allocating authority, defining relationships, resolving conflict, adapting to social change and fostering social solidarity. In examining these functions, the course also will assess how the values, concepts, principles and theory of law embodied in legal institutions inform, advance or retard social change. Toward these ends, the nature and limits of law, alternative perspectives on law, and alternatives ways of structuring legal processes also will be considered.
Prerequisite(s): GOVT 2301 and GOVT 2302