Law Through Scholarship

"Law Through Scholarship" is a collection of electives: one-credit courses, offered on a pass/unsatisfactory/no credit basis. The Law Through Scholarship will be taught in small, seminar-style classes of 20 or fewer students. There are no pre-requisites for these courses; faculty members have designed them expressly to appeal and engage our first-year class. The topics may vary from year to year, but these courses embody a variety of analytical frameworks (for instance, empirical legal studies, interdisciplinary research, and public policy or philosophical perspectives). Each of the courses requires active participation in discussing the reading and completing short writing assignments.

Law Through Scholarship

Spring 2021

American Legal Thought, Past and Present

Federal Criminal Sentencing

Emerging Scholarship in International Food Law

Using Empirical Research to Inform LGBT Law and Policy

Social Science and the Constitution

Persuasion

China and the Environment

Land Use, Planning, and Local Politics: The Past and Future of the American City

Introduction to Jewish Legal Reasoning

Constitutional Crises

Introduction to Environmental Justice Law, Theory, Practice, and Policy

What is an author? Why is a monkey not one?

Methods and Theories of International and Comparative Law

Legal Scholarship and the Police

The Commons: Before and After Property

Foundations of Energy Law and Regulation

Critical Race Judgments: Critical Race Theory and Supreme Court Decisionmaking

Law, Science and Inequality

Behavioral Law and Economics

An Introduction to Wrongful Convictions: Causes, Cures, and Methods for Investigation

Immigration Policy in a Contentious Age

Past Terms

American Legal Thought, Past and Present

Immigration Policy in a Contentious Age

Policing Poverty

Historical Perspective: The Role of Law in the Pursuit of a Moral Food System

LGBT Law and Policy

Social Science and the Constitution

Persuasion

China and the Environment

Land Use, Planning, and Local Politics: The Past and Future of the American City

Foundations of Energy Law and Regulation

Critical Race Judgments: Critical Race Theory and Supreme Court Decisionmaking

Dissenting Opinions

Legal Interpretation through the Lens of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics

Introduction to Environmental Law Practice and Regulatory Lawyering

Behavioral Law and Economics

Methods and Theories in International and Comparative Law

An Introduction to Wrongful Convictions: Causes, Cures, and Methods for Investigation

Methods and Theories in International and Comparative Law

Social Science and the Constitution

“Don’t say that about me”—Defamation, Invasion of Privacy, and Hate Speech

The Legal Nature of the Employment Relationship: A Theoretical and Historical Perspective

Persuasion

Introduction to Jewish Legal Reasoning

Introduction to Environmental Law Practice and Regulatory Lawyering

China and International Law

Critical Race Judgments: Critical Race Theory and Supreme Court Decisionmaking

Land Use, Planning, and Local Politics: The Past and Future of the American City

American Legal Thought, Past and Present

An Introduction to Modern American Legal Thought

An Introduction to Wrongful Convictions: Causes, Cures, and Methods for Investigation

Responses to Climate Change When the Federal Government Retreats

Learning to Think Like A Lawyer: Using Social Science to Interrogate the 1L Experience

Behavioral Law and Economics

Immigration Policy in a Contentious Age

LGBT Law and Policy

Historical Perspective: The Role of Law in the Pursuit of a Moral Food System