Units: 4
Hours: Seminar, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours
Catalog page 593
Prerequisites: graduate standing; or consent of instructor
Description: Introduces the American legal system and discusses how litigation forms and affects public policy. Discusses competing philosophies of what law can and should do, as well as discussions of how law advances or constrains the achievement of various political, economic, and social goals.
Credit: May be taken Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) with consent of instructor and graduate advisor.