2024 Fall

LEGALST 100 001 - LEC 001

Formerly 100A

Foundations of Legal Studies

Jonathan Steven Simon

Aug 28, 2024 - Dec 13, 2024

Tu, Th

08:00 am - 09:29 am

Hearst Mining 390

Class #:23278

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Letters & Science Legal Studies

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: -11

Enrolled: 161

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 150

Waitlist Max: 60

Open Reserved Seats:0

Hours & Workload

8 hours of outside work hours per week, 3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, and 1 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.

This is a liberal arts course designed to introduce students to the foundational frameworks and cross-disciplinary perspectives from humanities and social sciences that distinguish legal studies as a scholarly field. It provides a comparative and historical introduction to forms, ideas, institutions, and systems of law and sociological ordering. It highlights basic theoretical problems and scholarly methods for understanding questions of law and justice.