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This course examines the U.S. environmental justice (EJ) movement. Central to our study is: environmental degradation and pollution and their relationship to racism and poverty; as well as globalization's effect on international EJ. We critically analyze multiparty disputes considering the role of grassroots activism, the law, and ADR in the redress of environmental injustice. Coursework relies on relevant scholarship, case studies, and a site visit.

Does not fulfill any Legal Studies requirement. Individual projects, involving a high degree of self-motivated study under the supervision of a faculty member. Reading (library research) and writing are basic ingredients: requires faculty-student discussion and consultation. Prerequisite: LEGAL 250.

Movements of bodies, ideas and goods have been a constant part of history, yet responses to such movements have reflected particular economic, cultural, and political formations. This course examines the work of law in managing borders and the people that cross them, through case studies of historical and contemporary U.S.immigration law and policy. What legal principles guide government powers in regulating immigration? How does law produce subjects and identities' such as immigrant, refugee, and the undocumented migrant?

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Examines the roots in law and society of contemporary use of the death penalty in the U.S. Evolving legal doctrine and comparison of the conclusions upon which courts rely with those of the "court of public opinion." Materials include U.S. Supreme court cases, secondary sources, research studies, and Web sites. Active class participation required. Prerequisite: LEGAL 250

This course is designed to help students improve their ability to analyze and write about complicated legal issues. You should expect to do a lot of writing in this course. You will learn how to read and understand court opinions and how to find your way around a law library. Writing assignments include your own resume and a job application letter, case briefs, memoranda, OP-ED essays, and a research paper. These assignments are written from the perspective of a lay person writing to another lay person.

This course is designed to help students improve their ability to analyze and write about complicated legal issues. You should expect to do a lot of writing in this course. You will learn how to read and understand court opinions and how to find your way around a law library. Writing assignments include your own resume and a job application letter, case briefs, memoranda, OP-ED essays, and a research paper. These assignments are written from the perspective of a lay person writing to another lay person.

Law assumes facts, creates entities, and conceals aspects of its operation in order to extend or limit the power of courts in deciding cases. Law creates and deploys fictions (e.g. `corporate persons,? `reasonable persons,? `equal protection,? `compelling interests?) in that endeavor. This social construction of law and legal phenomena may be construed as proper or improper depending upon the power of competing stories and story tellers, as well as how we the audience ?receives? and ?give life? to them.