Description

Legal history may once have been primarily devoted to tracing the evolution of legal doctrines or the formulation of key judicial opinions, and as such, to be of interest primarily to legal scholars and lawyers. But now much of the best writing in legal history resembles historical writing more generally, and the study of legal ideas and practices is increasingly integrated with social, intellectual, cultural, and political history. This seminar will examine some of the best recent writings in American legal history, ranging broadly across time and space to consider the ways in which the field incorporates and reflects developments in historical writing more generally, but also considering how the use of legal materials might alter and influence our understanding of major aspects of American history as well.

This course is cross listed with the History Department (Same as History 353D).

• Number of Units: 3
• Course Number: 651

All Interdisciplinary Legal Studies courses:

• Advanced Legal Research
• Animal Law
• Approaches to American Legal History
• Art and the Law
• Econometrics
• Economic Analysis of Law
• Economic and Social Organization of the Legal Profession
• Entertainment Law
• Environmental Science for Managers and Policy Makers
• History of American Law
• International Conflict: Management and Resolution
• JSD Research Colloquium
• Law and Creativity: Fiction and Nonfiction
• Law and Culture in American Fiction
• Law and Culture in American Film
• Law and Economics Seminar
• Law and the Rhetorical Tradition
• Law, Economics and Politics of International Trade
• Leadership
• Legal History Workshop
• Legal Profession Workshop: The Future of Large Law Firms
• Legal Studies Workshop
• Medical-Legal Issues in Children’s Health
• Remedies
• Sexual Orientation and the Law
• Social Science and International Institutions
• Sociology of Law
• Stereotyping and Prejudice
• Tocqueville's Democracy in America