Law and Court in World Culture

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This course considers the nature of justice in philosophical, historical, and legal terms regarding racial justice, political representation, economic justice, gender and justice, the rights of cultural minorities, and crime and punishment. It examines major formulations of the relationship between law and culture in the sociological literature; it also examines the global sociological perspective on the development and consequences of laws and the courts in world culture and the structure and functions of the United Nations.