Contemporary Issues in Law and Society

Catalog description

Directly examines the legal and justice challenges that shape everyday life in the United States. Students examine how laws emerge, whose interests they serve, and how legal systems respond when social, political, and technological conditions shift. The class centers real world debates, current events, and lived experiences. Students work to recognize and critique various forms of fallacious and non-fallacious argumentation. Students then research, discuss and debate pressing issues of contemporary significance in U.S. law, examining how arguments on all sides of each debate are presented. Students consider the disparate impact of legal controversy on historically disempowered groups in American society.