JUSTICE, LAW AND SOCIETY
Course Level: Undergraduate
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. An introduction to the comparative study of legal history with a primary focus on the civil and common law traditions. Topics investigate the relational character of law in different settings and periods through diverse modes of historical and theoretical analysis. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: JLS-110 or JLS-202.
Course Level: Undergraduate
Topics in Legal History (3)
Great Trials in History
Great trials have an importance that transcend their context and provide and inform our contemporary understanding of the law and its implications. This course examines the institution and meaning of the trial by critically examining some of the most important of these events in legal history. A trial and its outcome are a critical statement about the social, political, and legal forces at work in any given historical context. As such, they are valuable snapshots into the socio-legal structures in place at that time.
Course Level: Undergraduate
Topics in Legal History (3)
Legal History Seminar
The two goals of this course are to provide students with the historical underpinnings of law in the Western world, and to introduce students to the different historic approaches that historians use to understand what counts as historic fact. Meets with JLS-606 001.