| Program Name: |
Legal Studies |
| Director: |
David T. Konig |
| Program Address: |
Department of History
Washington University
Campus Box 1062
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
314/935-5450
E-mail: dtkonig@artsci.wustl.edu
Web site: www.artsci.wustl.edu/~dtkonig/legal_studies |
| Program Type: |
Minor |
| Program Status: |
A Law, Liberty and Justice Program was established in 1980,
and reorganized in 1994 under the name "Legal Studies." |
| Statement of Intellectual Structure: |
| "The minor in legal studies is an academic program about law rather
than vocational training in law. It recognizes the critical role that law plays in
societies and seeks to apply a variety of disciplinary perspectives and methods to
understand that role. As distinct from a law school curriculum, it emphasizes the forces
that shape the law and the way peoples in different cultures and historical periods have
used the law and understood it. The minor in legal studies thus attempts to combine the
historical, economic, political, philosophical, and literary dimensions of law." |
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| Program Curricular Organization: |
Approximately six courses, four of which must be taken
outside of the student's major. |
| Required Courses: |
None
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| Sample of Elective Courses: |
Political Anthropology
Law in American Life, I (to 1776)
Law in American Life II (1776-present)
Philosophy of Law
Law, Judges and the Political System
Civil Liberties
Law and International Politics
Theory of Property Rights
Seminar in Law and Society
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| Experiential Component: |
None |
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