| This course offers a series of intensive historical case studies on how the law affects, and is affected by social developments. Representative topics include violence in America, the death penalty, and lawyers and lawsuits. In each instance, the approach is historical, emphasizing the social causation of important long-term changes, such as the fluctuating rate of homicide cases or the growing willingness to sue health-care providers. Students may take each course as a one-credit, five-week, "stand alone", or as a semester-long sequence of one-credit courses on different aspects of law and society. Students may take up to six different one-credit courses, earning a total of no more than six credits. |
