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The College of Staten Island’s Legal Studies Institute (LSI) is housed within the Department of Political Science and Global Affairs and the Department of Philosophy.

Sunday, April 2, 2017

Summer Session Course in Legal Studies, Hybrid, Half Online, Half In Person

June Summer Session Course 

The U.S. Legal System

Political Science 222: 4646

Professor Michael Paris

michaelpari@gmail.com
June 5—28.

Hybrid: Class Meets in Building 2N, Rm. 107
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30 to 10:00 p.m.
Seven Hours Online Per Week
                                                                                         
    

 This introductory survey course examines the role of law in American society and politics.  The course covers a broad range of topics in legal studies, including:  (1) the nature of law and the logic of legal reasoning; (2) feminism and the law; (3) crime and punishment; (4) the legal profession, legal education, and “adversary ethics”; (5) law and morality; and (6) the jury system.  Throughout, we will be concerned with law and its relationships to cultural change, political conflict, and morality.  This course will also include viewing and responding to several films, including:  A Thin Blue Line (death penalty); State v. Coon, Powell, et al. (Rodney King Trial); and 12 Angry Men

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