These seminars are designed to give students the chance to discuss engaging texts pertaining to law, lawyering, and their emerging professional identities in a non-traditional, collegial and stimulating environment. Students and faculty in these seminars will read interesting, non-traditional (by law school standards) materials together that relate, broadly speaking, to some matters connected to law, lawyering, or professional identity. Different seminars may take quite different foci. Materials might include films, novels; non-fiction works about lawyers, cases, trials, methods or ideas, etc. Each seminar will meet 5 times over the course of the academic year for approximately 2 ½ hours apiece, typically off-campus in the evenings and/or on weekends, and dinner or a light meal will be provided. Students are expected to attend all 5 sessions, do the reading, and participate, but there will be no final exam or final paper associated with these classes. Given the small number of sessions involved, more than one absence from the course without strong justification will be grounds for failure. The maximum number of students in any Perspectives seminar is 12. 1 unit, P/U/NC grading. Students may enroll in a maximum of one Perspectives seminar per year with a limit of 2 Perspectives seminars for your entire career. Third year students receive enrollment priority during the first enrollment pass.
LAW 561A/B
Perspectives on Law and Lawyering
Past Terms
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Spring 2020
LAW 561A/B | Spring 2020
Law, Lawyering and the Beautiful Game in the United States
Section: SEM 1
Faculty: Steven A. BankLAW 561A/B | Spring 2020Role of Law in Social Movements: Lessons from the US and Beyond
Section: SEM 2
Faculty: Scott L. CummingsLAW 561A/B | Spring 2020Ethical Lawyering in the Criminal Context
Section: SEM 3
Faculty: Sharon DolovichLAW 561A/B | Spring 2020Making a Murderer
Section: SEM 4
Faculty: Ingrid EaglyLAW 561A/B | Spring 2020Strangers to Ourselves: New Work in Psychology and What It Tells Us about Law, Lawyering, and Life
Section: SEM 5
Faculty: Mark GreenbergLAW 561A/B | Spring 2020Graphic Novels and the Law
Section: SEM 6
Faculty: Douglas LichtmanLAW 561A/B | Spring 2020Law and Lawlessness in the Age of Trump
Section: SEM 7
Faculty: Jon D. MichaelsLAW 561A/B | Spring 2020Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the Future of Transactional Practice
Section: SEM 8
Faculty: Jason OhLAW 561A/B | Spring 2020The Darrow Decade: Lawyers and Great Trials in America During the “Long 1920s”
Section: SEM 9
Faculty: Clyde S. Spillenger -
Fall 2019
LAW 561A/B | Fall 2019
Law, Lawyering and the Beautiful Game in the United States
Section: SEM 1
Faculty: Steven A. BankLAW 561A/B | Fall 2019Role of Law in Social Movements: Lessons from the US and Beyond
Section: SEM 2
Faculty: Scott L. CummingsLAW 561A/B | Fall 2019Ethical Lawyering in the Criminal Context
Section: SEM 3
Faculty: Sharon DolovichLAW 561A/B | Fall 2019Making a Murderer
Section: SEM 4
Faculty: Ingrid EaglyLAW 561A/B | Fall 2019Strangers to Ourselves: New Work in Psychology and What It Tells Us about Law, Lawyering, and Life
Section: SEM 5
Faculty: Mark GreenbergLAW 561A/B | Fall 2019Graphic Novels and the Law
Section: SEM 6
Faculty: Douglas LichtmanLAW 561A/B | Fall 2019Law and Lawlessness in the Age of Trump
Section: SEM 7
Faculty: Jon D. MichaelsLAW 561A/B | Fall 2019Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the Future of Transactional Practice
Section: SEM 8
Faculty: Jason OhLAW 561A/B | Fall 2019The Darrow Decade: Lawyers and Great Trials in America During the “Long 1920s”
Section: SEM 9
Faculty: Clyde S. Spillenger -
Spring 2019
LAW 561A/B | Spring 2019
Third World Approaches to International Law
Section: SEM 1
Faculty: E. Tendayi Achiume, Asli Ü. BâliLAW 561A/B | Spring 2019Great Frauds: The Role of Lawyers in Perpetrating, Facilitating, Discovering, Preventing, and Remedying Financial Scandals
Section: SEM 10
Faculty: Eric M. ZoltLAW 561A/B | Spring 2019Law, Lawyering and the Beautiful Game in the United States
Section: SEM 2
Faculty: Steven A. BankLAW 561A/B | Spring 2019Graphic Novels and the Law
Section: SEM 3
Faculty: Douglas LichtmanLAW 561A/B | Spring 2019Strangers to Ourselves: New Work in Psychology and What It Tells Us about Law, Lawyering, and Life
Section: SEM 4
Faculty: Mark GreenbergLAW 561A/B | Spring 2019Catholic Social Thought, the Law, and Public Policy
Section: SEM 5
Faculty: Stephen M. BainbridgeLAW 561A/B | Spring 2019Law and Lawlessness in the Age of Trump
Section: SEM 6
Faculty: Jon D. MichaelsLAW 561A/B | Spring 2019Lawyering in the Criminal Context
Section: SEM 7
Faculty: Sharon DolovichLAW 561A/B | Spring 2019Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the Future of Transactional Practice
Section: SEM 8
Faculty: Jason OhLAW 561A/B | Spring 2019Legal Issues in Science Fiction
Section: SEM 9
Faculty: Edward A. Parson -
Fall 2018
LAW 561A/B | Fall 2018
Third World Approaches to International Law
Section: SEM 1
Faculty: E. Tendayi Achiume, Asli Ü. BâliLAW 561A/B | Fall 2018Great Frauds: The Role of Lawyers in Perpetrating, Facilitating, Discovering, Preventing, and Remedying Financial Scandals
Section: SEM 10
Faculty: Eric M. ZoltLAW 561A/B | Fall 2018Law, Lawyering and the Beautiful Game in the United States
Section: SEM 2
Faculty: Steven A. BankLAW 561A/B | Fall 2018Graphic Novels and the Law
Section: SEM 3
Faculty: Douglas LichtmanLAW 561A/B | Fall 2018Strangers to Ourselves: New Work in Psychology and What It Tells Us about Law, Lawyering, and Life
Section: SEM 4
Faculty: Mark GreenbergLAW 561A/B | Fall 2018Catholic Social Thought, the Law, and Public Policy
Section: SEM 5
Faculty: Stephen M. BainbridgeLAW 561A/B | Fall 2018Law and Lawlessness in the Age of Trump
Section: SEM 6
Faculty: Jon D. MichaelsLAW 561A/B | Fall 2018Lawyering in the Criminal Context
Section: SEM 7
Faculty: Sharon DolovichLAW 561A/B | Fall 2018Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the Future of Transactional Practice
Section: SEM 8
Faculty: Jason OhLAW 561A/B | Fall 2018Legal Issues in Science Fiction
Section: SEM 9
Faculty: Edward A. Parson