PERSPECTIVES
IN LAW & SOCIAL SCIENCE
Course Number: 90003- -01, GARTH / Woeste
This
course will focus both on what social science contributes
to the study of law and legal institutions and on how
social science and the law relate. Social science, in
other words, provides tools to understand the construction,
operation, and legitimization of laws and legal institutions,
but at the same time social science is used by legal actors
to provide credibility and to legitimate normative legal
positions. The tools that will be highlighted will be
history, neo- institutional sociology, structural sociology,
institutional political science, empirical economics,
linguistic anthropology, social psychology, and what can
be called "law and context."
Meeting
Times: RF 1:00-2:25
Enrollment:
Lottery - Max Enrollment 25
Elements
used in grading: There may also be a take-home exam. The
students will be evaluated on the basis of class participation
and three relatively short papers.
Type
of exam:
Specific
graduation requirements met: None
Special
instructions, rules or deadlines: None
