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Class number:
3104
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Title: Legal Mobilization |
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Department: Political Science |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Lecture |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 25 |
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Current enrollment: 18 |
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Available seats: 7 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 3, 2024 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 18, 2024 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: MW: 8:30AM-9:45AM, LSC - 135 |
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Instructor(s): Dudas, Mary |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Social Sciences Requirement |
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Note: No Seniors unless by Instructor Permission |
Course Description:
This course focuses on the question: Can street level actors create broad social change through law use or the invocation of legal norms and practices? The first half of the course examines how individuals or groups come to understand grievances as legal issues or rights claims and organize to make legal claims on formal actors (e.g., courts, insurance companies, or employers). Case studies may include the Conservative Legal Movement or the women's rights movement. The second half of the course examines the police as legal and political actors who are organized to create social change or "govern through crime (control)."
Students who have taken POLS 273 with Professor Mary Dudas may NOT take this course |