2022 Fall
LEGALST 173AC 001 - LEC 001
Formerly Legal Studies 173
Making Empire: Law and the Colonization of America
Christopher Lawrence Tomlins
Aug 24, 2022 - Dec 09, 2022
Tu, Th
09:30 am - 10:59 am
Anthro/Art Practice Bldg 155
Class #:25476
Units: 4
Instruction Mode:
In-Person Instruction
Offered through
Letters & Science Legal Studies
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
13
Enrolled: 47
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 60
Waitlist Max: 20
Open Reserved Seats:
12 reserved for Students with 3 or more Terms in Attendance
3 reserved for Legal Studies Majors
Hours & Workload
3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 8 hours of outside work hours per week, and 1 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.
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Course Catalog Description
This is an intro to the origins, development, and expansion of European settlement on the North American mainland. We will concentrate on the impulses – commercial, ideological, and racial – that drove European colonizing; the migrations (voluntary and forced) that sustained it; and the political and legal “technologies” that supplied it with definition, explanation, and institutional capacity. We will pay attention to themes of sovereignty, civic identity, race, and “manifest destiny” and will discuss how law provided both the language and technical capacity to transform territory into property, people into slaves, and the land’s indigenous inhabitants into “others” who existed “outside” the civic order of the American Republic.
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions
Students who complete Legalst 173 will not receive credit for Legalst 173AC.
Repeat Rules
Course is not repeatable for credit.
Requirements class fulfills
American Cultures Requirement
Reserved Seats
Current Enrollment
Open Reserved Seats:
Textbooks & Materials
See class syllabus or https://calstudentstore.berkeley.edu/textbooks for the most current information.
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