Course Title:
Theories in Law, Policy, and Society
Course Description:
Contrasts several major schools of thought about the relationships between law, public policy, and social experience. Examines the differing assumptions about the law in legal realism, social choice theory, law and economics, Marxism, critical legal studies, functionalism, conflict theory, and natural law in order to reveal their theoretical bases and their policymaking implications. Each school is presented with attention to how its scholars claim to know what they know; how its theories are created, tested, and evaluated; the range of issues that are regarded as fit to study; and how research agendas are set.
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