Legal Studies 352 - Lawyering for a Better World

This course will introduce you (and hopefully get you excited about) the concept of social justice lawyering. We will explore the genres/theoretical frameworks, the legal strategies, the practice models, the motivation to practice this kind of law, and whether the law and lawyers are well suited to create social change. We will then do deep dives into some of the most consequential areas of social justice lawyering, where we will learn about the movement, the law and the change that it created, and then think critically about whether these movements were successes or failures, and what we might have done differently with the benefit of hindsight.

This course is open to Senior, Junior, and Sophomore Legal Studies majors only. Pre Req: LEGAL 250