Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Law and Social Change
Term
2025A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC2240401
Course number integer
2240
Meeting times
TR 5:15 PM-6:44 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Hocine Fetni
Description
Beginning with discussion of various perspectives on social change and law, this course then examines in detail the interdependent relationship between changes in legal and societal institutions. Emphasis will be placed on (1) how and when law can be an instrument for social change, and (2) how and when social change can cause legal change. In the assessment of this relationship, emphasis will be on the laws of the United States. However, laws of other countries and international law relevant to civil liberties, economic, social and political progress will be studied. Throughout the course, discussions will include legal controversies relevant to social change such as issues of race, gender and the law. Other issues relevanat to State-Building and development will discussed. A comparative framework will be used in the analysis of this interdependent relationship between law and social change.
Course number only
2240
Cross listings
SOCI2240401
Fulfills
Cultural Diviserity in the U.S.
Use local description
No