LEGAL STUDIES
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The intercollegiate and interdisciplinary Program in Legal Studies seeks
to illuminate law from a liberal arts perspective, with ideas and methods from
disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. It is also intended to help
unify and increase the student's appreciation of these other disciplines by
using them to study law as a central social phenomenon and repository of values.
A premise of the program in Legal Studies is that law, when approached from
a liberal arts perspective, reveals a collection of magnificent intellectual
and social structures that are too important - and too interesting - to be
left entirely to professionals. By contrast, American law schools are specialized
graduate institutions, with their own traditions and systems of values, and
have a largely professional orientation. They teach the doctrine of law brilliantly,
in their severely analytic style, but for this very reason they can give at
best only secondary attention to the goal of exploring the relationships of
law with other aspects of intellectual and social endeavor.
The program in Legal Studies is completed as part of a dual major with another
academic field. The major requires six courses in legal studies and a minimum
of eight courses in the other field of the dual major. For further information
on dual majors and the requirements for the other field of study of the dual
major, please check the appropriate sections of this catalog. Each student's
individual program must be approved by the Chair of the Supervisory Committee
on Legal Studies, Professor Rossum.
Major Requirements (Dual Major Only)
Completion of the program requires six courses, distributed as follows:
- Two Required Core Courses
- Government 95. Legal Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction to
Law (normally taken first)
- Government 189. Seminar in Legal Studies, or approved substitute (to
be taken in the junior or senior year after the other requirements of
the Program are substantially completed).
- Four Intermediate Courses
These courses must be distributed so they cover at least three of the disciplines
represented within the Legal Studies Program (see listing below.)
Supervisory Committee on Legal Studies
At Claremont McKenna College - Professors: Bessette (Government), Costanzo
(Psychology), Lofgren (History and Government), and Rossum (Chair) (Government)
At Scripps College - Professor: Geerken (History)
Courses
The courses listed under each area are not meant to be exhaustive and other
courses may also be available from the Chair of the Supervisory Committee.
For information on specific courses, please consult the faculty member listed
with each course. For course offerings, please consult the Fall 2003 and Spring
2004 Undergraduate Schedule of Courses. Further information and course descriptions
may be found in the appropriate College Catalogs.
Economics
167. Law and Economics (Stubblebine)
168. Economics of Crime (Helland)
191. Business Law (Taylor)
Government
90. Introduction to Constitutional Law: National Powers (Rossum)
91. Introduction to Constitutional Law: Civil Liberties (Rossum)
95. Legal Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Law (Rossum)
105. Organization of Health Care and Public Policy (Lynch)
109. Juvenile Delinquency and Public Policy (Lynch)
113. Inequality, Politics, and Public Policy: Class, Race, and Gender (Lynch)
176. American Constitutional History (Lofgren)
177. Representation and the Supreme Court (Elliott)
179. Law and Social Change (Lynch)
180e. Law and Literature (Martin)
181. Crime and Public Policy (Bessette)
182. Murder in the United States: Crime, Prosecution, and Punishment (Bessette
and Rossum)
185. The Supreme Court and Criminal Procedure (Miller)
188. The Supreme Court and the Constitution in Modern America (Seminar) (Lofgren)
189. Seminar in Legal Studies (Staff)
History
126. American Constitutional History (Lofgren)
128. The Supreme Court and the Constitution in Modern America (Seminar) (Lofgren)
157sc. Machiavelli and Machiavellianism: Power, Law, and Society (Geerken)
160asc. History of Legal Thought: Ancient Law (Geerken)
160bsc. History of Legal Thought: 1066-1789 (Geerken)
162sc. Seminar in Legal Thought: Problems in Justice (Geerken)
168sc. Crime and Punishment in the Renaissance (Geerken)
Psychology
117. Practicum in Mediation and Dispute Resolution (Costanzo)
180. Forensic Psychology (Krauss)
188. Psychology and Law (Costanzo)
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