| Program Name: |
Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought (LJST) |
| Director: |
Austin Sarat |
| Program Address: |
Amherst College
Department of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought
Amherst, MA 01002
Washington, D.C. 20016
413/542-2380
E-mail: adsarat@amherst.edu
Web Site: http://www.amherst.edu/~ljst
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| Program Type: |
Department |
| Program Status: |
Established 1990-91; later granted departmental status |
| Statement of Intellectual Structure: |
| The Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought places the study
of law within the context of a liberal arts education. The department offers courses that
treat law as an historically evolving and culturally specific enterprise in which moral
argument, distinctive interpretive practices, and force are brought to bear on the
organization of social life. These courses use legal material to explore conventions of
reading, argument and proof, problems of justice and injustice, tensions between authority
and community, and contests over social meanings and practices. |
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| Program Curricular Organization: |
Two required courses as well as one course in Interpretive
Practice and one course in Historical and Cross-Cultural Practices. Thesis required for
Honors. |
| Required Courses: |
The Social Organization of Law
The Image of Law in Social and Political Thought |
| Sample of Elective Courses: |
The Rhetoric of Law: Proof and Persuasion in the Legal
Process
Interpretation of Law and Literature
Accusation and Confession
Colonialism, Post-Colonialism and Legal Theory
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| Experiential Component: |
None |
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