Drew University Moodle

Course Description:
This course offers students an overview of the legal system, explores the interaction between the different legal and political institutions, and delves into some of the more controversial issues in law and politics. The course operates in five main parts: the first deals with jurisprudence (theories of law); the second focuses on applying a law and society approach to understanding key legal institutions, namely courts, legal education, lawyers and juries; the third identifies certain key issues and debates that have inform how people think about and interact with the law; and the fourth concerns an assessment of the intersections between identity, politics, and the law, and the fifth concerns the many facets of the law both in the United States and internationally.