2022 Fall LEGALST 173AC 001 LEC 001

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

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

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