Legal Studies
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Legal Studies is an interdisciplinary program of study focusing on the nature of law and judicial process. Consistent with the purposes of the American Legal Studies Association, the Legal Studies Program at PLU provides alternative approaches to the study of law from the academic framework of the Divisions of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Schools of the Arts, Business, and Education. The faculty teaching within the program emphasize the development of a critical understanding of the functions of law, the mutual impacts of law and society, and the sources of law. Students completing a minor in Legal Studies pursue these objectives through courses, directed research, and internships in of?ces and agencies involved in making, enforcing, interpreting, and communicating "the law" in contemporary American civil society.
Faculty: Jobst, Chair; Anderson, Arnold, Brue, Dwyer-Shick, Hasty, Kaurin, Klein, Lisosky, MacDonald, Menzel, Rowe.
minor: 20 semester hours, including Philosophy 328, Political Science 170, and 12 additional semester hours, selected in consultation with the program's chair.
Anthroplogy 375 Law, Politics, and Revolution - C, S1
Business 400 General Business Law
Business 405 Law of the Financial Marketplace
Business 406 Law of the Workplace
Business 407 Law of the Marketplace
Business 408 International Business Law
Communications 381 Media Law
Economics 371 Industrial Organization and Public Policy - S2
History 451 Legal History - S1
Philosophy 328 Philosophical Issues in the Law
Political Science 170 Introduction to Legal Studies - S1
Political Science 371 Judicial Process - S1
Political Science 372 Constitutional Law - S1
Political Science 373 Civil Liberties - S1
Political Science 374 Legal Studies Research - S1
Political Science 381 Comparative Legal Systems - C, S1
Political Science 471 Internship in Legal Studies - S1
Psychology 471 Psychology and the Law - S2
Sociology 351 Sociology of Law - S2