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224.7 sec. 1 - Social Movements & Law Workshop (Spring 2011)
"Social Movements and Law"
Instructor: Catherine Albiston (view instructor's teaching evaluations | profile)
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Units: 3
Meeting Time: W 2:00-4:50
Meeting Location: 2240 Piedmont
Course Start: January 12, 2011
Course Control Number (Non-1Ls): 49555
Since Brown v. Board of Education scholars have been interested in understanding how social movements mobilize law to bring about social change. A rich body of empirical scholarship in sociology, political science, and law and society examines whether legal rights can bring about meaningful social change, the limitations of courts and litigation for producing social change, the effects (both positive and negative) of litigation strategies on social movements themselves, the many ways in which social movements mobilize law, the conditions under which litigation strategies bring about change, and how law can provide symbolic frames and resources for producing oppositional consciousness and shaping identities. This course will examine this body of literature, focusing on concepts from both legal theory and sociology regarding law and social change.
Prerequisites:
No prerequisites, some background in social science is helpful but not required.
This course may satisfy the Writing Requirement.
Exam Notes: P
Course Category: Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP)
This course is cross-listed in the following categories:
Law and Society
Public Law and Policy
Social Justice and Public Interest
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Readers:
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Books:
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- Activists beyond borders
Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1998.
ISBN: 9780801484568
Copyright Date: To Be Determined
Price: $2.99
Note: prices are sampled from internet bookstores. Folletts prices are unavailable at this time. - Policing dissent
Luis A. Fernandez
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.
ISBN: 9780813542157
Copyright Date: To Be Determined
Price: 15.83
Note: prices are sampled from internet bookstores. Ned's prices are unavailable at this time. - Political process and the development of Black insurgency, 1930-1970
Doug McAdam
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
ISBN: 9780226555539
Copyright Date: To Be Determined
Price: 3.01
Note: prices are sampled from internet bookstores. Ned's prices are unavailable at this time. - Rights at work
Michael W. McCann
Publisher: Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 1994.
ISBN: 9780226555720
Copyright Date: To Be Determined
Price: 4.83
Note: prices are sampled from internet bookstores. Ned's prices are unavailable at this time. - The Lost Promise of Civil Rights
Risa L. Goluboff,
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674034693
Copyright Date: To Be Determined
Price: 14.5
Note: prices are sampled from internet bookstores. Ned's prices are unavailable at this time. - Methods of social movement research
Bert Klandermans and Suzanne Staggenborg, editors
Publisher: Minneapolis, MN ; University of Minnesota Press, c2002.
ISBN: 9780816635955
Copyright Date: To Be Determined
Price: 22
Note: prices are sampled from internet bookstores. Ned's prices are unavailable at this time.
