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NOTE: Course offerings change. Classes offered this semester may not be offered in future semesters.225.2 sec. 1 - Legal Institutions (Spring 2012)
Instructor: Robert A. Kagan (view instructor's teaching evaluations | profile)
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Units: 3
Meeting Time: W 10:00-12:40
Meeting Location: 2240 Piedmont
Course Start: January 11, 2012
Course Control Number (Non-1Ls): 49613
This seminar is designed to introduce students to the study of public law-- a subfield of political science that focuses on the relationships between law and politics, and between politics and the design, behavior, and impact of legal institutions. Readings for the Spring Semester 2012, drawing on comparative as well as American studies, focus on the political sources of the rule of law, judicial independence and constitutional courts; typologies of legal systems and legal institutions; explaining variation in the role of courts in governance; studies of decisionmaking by judges and other legal decision-makers; and studies of the capacity of law and courts to affect policy and social change. In the course of addressing these topics, the seminar will familiarize students with prominent approaches to research and explanation in public law. A paper of at least 30 pages on a topic relating to the themes of the course and discussed with the instructor is 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
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Readers:
A reader will be used in this class.
Books:
Required Books are in blue
- Adversarial legalism
Robert A. Kagan
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
ISBN: 9780674012417
Copyright Date: To Be Determined
Price: $9.72
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