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Home > Program > Elective Courses

In addition to the 4 Required Law Forum courses, members must also complete at least 3 upper division courses from the following list.  These are general admission courses, meaning Law Forum members do not receive enrollment priority.

Please note that this is a comprehensive list of courses that have been offered over the last several years.  Only a few of these courses will be offered in any given quarter:

  • U.S. Supreme Court [PoliSci]

  • American Constitutional Law [PoliSci]

  • Contemporary Constitutional Rights [PoliSci]

  • Civil Rights [PoliSci]

  • Racial Equality and the U.S. Supreme Court [PoliSci]

  • Civil Liberties [PoliSci]

  • Free Expression in a Democratic Society [PoliSci]

  • International Law [PoliSci]

  • Advanced Topics in International Law [PoliSci]

  • International Environment Law [PoliSci]

  • Law & Policy of Global Climate Change [PoliSci]

  • Comparative Law [PoliSci]

  • Comparative Constitutional Politics [PoliSci]

  • War Crime Trials [PoliSci]

  • Grand Juries: State & Federal [PoliSci]

  • Prosecution Policy [PoliSci]

  • Legal Implications of the Drug Trade [PoliSci]

  • Judges, Ethics & Politics [PoliSci]

  • Jurisprudence [PoliSci]

  • The Philosophy of Law (aka The Nature of Law) [PoliSci/LPS]

  • Law & Economics (aka Economics of Law) [Econ]

  • Law & Markets [PoliSci]

  • Law & Technology [PoliSci]

  • Science and the Law [PoliSci]

  • Law & Medicine [PoliSci]

  • Life & Death Decisions Under the Law [PoliSci]

  • Discrimination and the Law [PoliSci]

  • Gender Equality and the Law [PoliSci]

  • Race and the Law [SocSci]

  • Religion and the Law [SocSci]

  • Law, Colonialism & Nationalism [Anthro]

*Substitution: Students may petition to substitute another course of relevance to the study of law for one of these three elective courses.  Such approval is rare, but may be given from time to time.  Please provide the Law Forum Director with a copy of the course syllabus and a brief written argument as to how the course in question deals with law or the legal system.  [Forward the material to the Director via email or slide it under the office door.]

 


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