Legal Studies 393L - S-Lobbying for Legal Change

Social movements use a wide array of strategies in an effort to influence legal change. This course focuses on these strategies, including lobbying techniques and grant writing. It explores these strategies in relation to major policy initiatives such as marriage equality, reproductive rights, gun control, state and federal budgets, health care, and tax reform. This course will provide students with an overview of the lawmaking process - both in theory and reality - and help students better understand how social movements operate to influence policy outcomes. Students will explore how the media, public opinion, and politics influence social welfare policy at the federal, state, and municipal levels. This course will be of particular use for careers in legal advocacy, the nonprofit sector, and governmental work.

Open to Legal Studies students and all students who have taken LEGAL 250.