The Legal Studies Institute at the College of Staten
Island
The College of Staten Island established its Legal Studies
Institute (LSI) in 2014. The LSI is
housed within the Department of Political Science and Global Affairs and the
Department of Philosophy. At the College
of Staten Island, we view interdisciplinary legal studies as a vital part of a
rich and demanding liberal arts education.
Accordingly, the mission of the LSI is to offer our students a robust
and varied set opportunities in law and related fields, and to enhance the
intellectual environment of the college as a whole. At the core of the LSI is a
new academic program of study, a sixteen-credit minor in Legal Studies. In addition to enhancing the College’s
curricular offerings, our mission also includes:
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Providing excellent pre-law
advising and career counseling services to all College of Staten Island
students and alums.
·
Sponsoring an annual lecture in
law, philosophy, and public policy, as well as occasional colloquia and lecture
series.
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Conducting many workshops each
year for students interested in law school and legal careers; and
·
Coordinating legal internship
placements for our students.
The Legal Studies Minor:
Students opting to minor in Legal Studies have access to
introductory and upper level courses in law and philosophy, American
constitutionalism, law and society, criminal law and procedure, and law and
public policy.
Minor
Requirements: 16 credits
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Required
Courses:
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8
credits
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POL
222: The American Legal System
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4
credits
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PHL
331/POL 330: Legal Philosophy
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4
credits
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And
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One
course in Legal Philosophy and American Constitutionalism chosen from among
the following:
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4
credits
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PHL
336: Advanced Topics in Legal
Philosophy
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4
credits
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POL
336: American Constitutional Law
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4
credits
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POL
338: Civil Rights and Liberties
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4
credits
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And
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One
course in Law, Courts, and Public Policy chosen from among the following:
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4
credits
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POL
223: Public Adminstration
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4
credits
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POL
233/34: CUNY Internship Program in
Government and Politics
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4
credits
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POL
237: Criminal Courts and Defendant's
Rights
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4
credits
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POL
238: Criminal Law and Procedure
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4
credits
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ECO
331/POL 331:Law and Economics
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4
credits
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POL
320: The Judiciary in Politics
POL
321: Race, Law and Public Policy in
the Contemporary United States
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4
credits
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POL
323: Public Policy Analysis
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4
credits
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Students
in any major may minor in Legal Studies.
For more information, point your browser to:
Pre-Law Advising
and Career Counseling:
The LSI offers pre-law advisement and career counseling
services to all interested College of Staten Island students and graduates. Professor Michael Paris is the Pre-Law Advisor
for the College. His office is located
in Buidling 2N, Room 226. He can be
reached at (718) 982-3011, or at Michael.Paris@csi.cuny.edu.
Annual Lecture in
Law, Philosophy, and Public Policy:
In conjunction with the Provost and the Dean of Humanities
and Social Sciences, the LSI sponsors an annual lecture that brings a prominent
legal scholar or practitioner to our campus each year. In 2014, Harvard Law Professor Cass Sunstein
delivered our Inaugural Lecture.
Pre-Law Workshops:
The LSI sponsors four workshops or panel discussions each
year about the law school admissions process and career options in law and
related fields. We host specialists in LSAT preparation, deans of admission at
area law schools, and attorneys practicing in various practice fields, all for
the purpose of providing students with access to the practical knowledge and
networking opportunities they need to succeed in law school and the profession
beyond.
Internships in Legal
Settings: The LSI sponsors and
coordinates student internships in law. Students receive college credit for
legal internships in a variety of practice settings, including the Staten
Island District Attorney’s Office, Legal Aid’s Criminal Defense and Civil
Litigation Divisions, and small firm practice.
Blogspot/Website:
For up-to-date information about the LSI and its ongoing
activities, as well as useful information for students interested in a career
in the law, point your browser to:
csilsi.blogspot.com
Participating
Faculty and Staff
Professor Mark D.
White
Chair, Department of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
Mark.White@csi.cuny.edu
Professor White has been a
member of the CSI faculty since 1998 and teaches courses in philosophy,
economics, and law. He has authored over 40 journal articles and book chapters
in the intersections between these fields as well as four books, including The
Manipulation of Choice: Ethics and Libertarian Paternalism (Palgrave,
2013) and Kantian Ethics and Economics: Autonomy, Dignity, and
Character (Stanford, 2011). He has also edited a number of volumes,
including Law and Social Economics
(Palgrave, 2015), Retributivism: Essays on Theory and Policy (Oxford,
2011) and Theoretical Foundations of Law
and Economics (Cambridge, 2009). Professor White received the 2009 Dolphin
Award for Outstanding Scholarly
Achievement by a Member of the Full-Time Faculty.
Professor Michael Paris
Department of Political Science and Global Affairs
Ph.D., Brandeis Univeristy
J.D., Columbia University School of Law
Professor Paris has been on the faculty since 2007 and
teaches courses in constitutional law, civil liberties, and law and public policy.
Professor Paris is the author of Framing
Equal Opportunity: Law and the Politics of School Finance Reform (Stanford
University Press, 2010), which received an honorable mention for the 2011 C.
Herman Pritchett Award, given annually by the American Political Science
Association’s Law and Courts Section for the best book in the field published
by a political scientist during the previous year. Paris’s other publications
include “Racial Liberalism and School Desegregation Jurisprudence: Notes Toward
a Usable Past,” in Anne R. Oakes, Ed., Controversies
in Equal Protection (forthcoming, Ashgate Publishers, 2015), and “The
Politics of Rights: Then and Now,” Law
and Social Inquiry, Vol. 31, Issue 4, Fall 2006, 999-1034. Professor Paris
received the 2011 Dolphin Award for Outstanding
Teaching by a Member of the Full-Time Faculty. He serves as the Pre-Law
Advisor and Coordinator of the Legal Studies Institute.
Professor Richard Flanagan
Chair, Department of Political Science and Global Affairs
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Richard.Flanagan@csi.cuny.edu
Professor Flanagan has been a member of the CSI faculty
since 1998 and teaches courses in American politics, public policy,
administrative law, and urban studies. Professor Flanagan has supervised over
300 students in his role as faculty liaison to CUNY’s Edward T. Rogowsky
Internship Program in Government and Public Affairs. He received the College’s
2009 Dolphin Award for Outstanding
Service and Contribution to the College by a Member of the Full-Time Faculty,
and its 2013 Dolphin Award for Outstanding
Teaching by a Member of the Full-Time Faculty. Professor Flanagan is the
author of Mayors and the Challenge of
Urban Leadership (University Press, 2004), Staten Island: Conservative Bastion in a Liberal City [with Dan
Kramer] (University Press, 2012) and Robert
Wagner and the Rise of New York City’s Plebiscitary Mayoralty: The Tamer of
Tammany Hall (forthcoming). His next book, The Fight for City Hall: The 2013 Mayoral Election and the Future of
New York City,” chronicles the state of the city at the end of the
Bloomberg era.
Adjunct Professor Adam Silberlight
Assistant District
Attorney, Staten Isalnd
J.D., Albany Law
School
B.A., College of
Staten Island
asilberlight@justice.com
Professor Silberlight has taught courses in
criminal law and procedure, constitutional law and legal studies at the
College of Staten Island since 2008. He also provides counseling and
mentoring services to students. He has served as an Assistant District
Attorney in Richmond County since 2001. He has also taught as an adjunct
at New York Law School, where he instructed for the Richmond County
Criminal Prosecution Clinic from 2011-2013. Professor Silberlight’s
publications include “Though Shall Not Overlook Context: A Look at
the Ten Commandments Under the Establishment Clause”, 18 Widener L.J. 113 (2008), and “Preventing
the Inevitable and Avoiding the Protected: The Potential Use of the Inevitable
Discovery Theory in Relation to Non-Privileged Blood Samples for Use in
Drinking and Driving Related Prosecutions,” 19 St.
John’s J. Legal Comment. 507 (2005).
Erica L.S. Sbordone
College Assistant
College
Council/Faculty Senate/Department of Philosophy
B.A., St. Johns
University
Erica L.S. Sbordone has been a College Assistant for the
last 2 years. She is currently enrolled
in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program at the College of Staten
Island. She can be reached at: Erica.Sbordone@csi.cuny.edu
Contact Us:
The Legal Studies Institute
c/o Professor Michael Paris
The College of Staten Island
Department of Political Science and Global Affairs
Building 2N, Room 224
2800 Victory Blvd
Staten Island, NY
10314
(718) 982-3011, or (718) 982-2900
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