SJUS 4050 - Law and Social Justice

Description

This course analyzes the relationship between legal institutions, inequality, and the ability of social groups to produce fundamental social change.

Learning Objectives

• Describe ways in which law can be seen as both an instrument of positive social change and a means of confirming existing social arrangements and resisting social change.
• Compare theoretical perspectives on law, justice, and society.
• Critically analyze case studies concerning the struggles to achieve justice and involvement in legal processes and institutions by particular groups and individuals.
• Examine a selection of issues such as gender politics, ethnicity, race, indigenous politics, sexual orientation, class, and economic struggles, social dissent, and the experience of non-traditional and minority populations.