LAWE 626

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Students will examine the legal history of the Civil Rights Movement nationally and locally, centering Virginia as a vanguard. While the conventional roles of courts and lawyers may have limited the ability to use law for social change, contemporary legal scholarship acknowledges the dialectical relationship between law and social movements. As such, this course considers what modern lawyers can learn by how previous movement contributors engaged the courts and law and how these encounters shaped constitutional doctrine, public discourse, social institutions, and the movement participants themselves.