Breaking the Law

Catalog description

This interdisciplinary course explores central questions about law, crime, justice, social change, human rights, globalization, and technology in the new global era. The dominant global forces that have defined the 21st century have massively transformed law and legal frameworks, at both local and global levels. How is violence enacted through law, and how is law’s violence resisted, challenged, and overcome? What is law’s role in relation to patterns of discrimination and marginalization that produce social suffering and vulnerability? In relation to global human rights regimes and international justice mechanisms? In relation to inequalities in access to health care and other basic human goods? How are our understandings of our own bodies, lives, and futures shaped by law?