Legal Studies

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LEGALST R1A Reading and Composition in Connection with the Law as a Social Institution 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course is designed to fulfill the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement. Students will learn to identify an author's point of view and main arguments; evaluate an author's credibility and the merits of his or her argument, write a unified essay with intro, thesis statement, transitions between paragraphs, a concluding paragraph and develop an argument about an issue related to the course.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing Requirement

Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Legal Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Final exam not required.

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LEGALST R1B Reading and Composition in Connection with the Law as a Social Institution 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
This course is designed to fulfill the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement. Students will develop their skills at critical reading, writing, and analysis, and will complete a series of essays culminating in a research paper relating to law, legal actors, and legal institutions. Emphasis will be placed on the process of writing, including developing research questions, constructing an argument, and revising for content and style.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Previously passed an R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better. <BR/>Previously passed an articulated R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better. <BR/>Score a 4 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Literature and Composition. Score a 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Language and Composition. Score of 5, 6, or 7 on the International Baccalaureate Higher Level Examination in English

Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Legal Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Final exam not required.

Instructor: Bruce

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LEGALST 24 Freshman Seminars 1 Unit [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2016, Fall 2001, Fall 2000
The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
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Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Legal Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.

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LEGALST 39B Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2006, Fall 2001
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-4 hours of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Legal Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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LEGALST 39D Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-4 hours of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Legal Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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LEGALST 39E Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2012
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-4 hours of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Legal Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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LEGALST 39H Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-4 hours of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Legal Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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LEGALST 39I Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-4 hours of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Legal Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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LEGALST 88 Crime and Punishment: taking the measure of the US justice system 2 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017
We will explore how data are used in the criminal justice system by exploring the debates surrounding mass incarceration and evaluating a number of different data sources that bear on police practices, incarceration, and criminal justice reform. Students will be required to think critically about the debates regarding criminal justice in the US and to work with various public data sets to assess the extent to which these data confirm or deny specific policy narratives. Building on skills from Foundations of Data Science, students will be required to use basic data management skills working in Python: data cleaning, aggregation, merging and appending data sets, collapsing variables, summarizing findings, and presenting data visualizations.
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Rules & Requirements

Credit Restrictions: This course is meant to be taken concurrently with Computer Science C8/Statistics C8/Information C8: Foundations of Data Science. Students may take more than one 88 (data science connector) course if they wish, ideally concurrent with or after having taken the C8 course.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 4 hours of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Legal Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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LEGALST 98 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Small group instruction in topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses. Topics may vary from year to year.
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Rules & Requirements

Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Legal Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.

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LEGALST 100 Foundations of Legal Studies 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Summer 2019 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2019
This is a liberal arts course designed to introduce students to the foundational frameworks and cross-disciplinary perspectives from humanities and social sciences that distinguish legal studies as a scholarly field. It provides a comparative and historical introduction to forms, ideas, institutions, and systems of law and sociological ordering. It highlights basic theoretical problems and scholarly methods for understanding questions of law and justice.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Legal Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Perry

Formerly known as: 100A

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LEGALST 101 American Law and Legal Institutions 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Not yet offered
The United States has a legal system that developed from its English roots into a complicated set of rules and organizations that must serve the needs of a large, federal state with a dynamic market economy. This course surveys American law, both substantive and procedural, and the institutions that shape and implement it, including legislatures, courts, lawyers, and litigants. The course also provides students with a basic background in law and how it operates in the contemporary United States.
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Objectives & Outcomes

Course Objectives: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the development of legal rules and institutions in the United States.
Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the legal rules that channel government activity and the relationship between the state and the individual.
Students will be able to evaluate the role and effectiveness of legal institutions, including courts, procuracy, police, and the bar.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Legal Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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LEGALST 102 Policing and Society 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Summer 2015 Second 6 Week Session
This course examines the American social institution of policing with particular emphasis on urban law enforcement. It explores the social, economic, and cultural forces that pull policing in the direction of state legal authority and power as well as those that are a counter-weight to the concentration of policing powers in the state. Special attention is given to how policing shapes and is shaped by the urban landscape, legal to cultural.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Legal Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Musheno

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LEGALST 103 Theories of Law and Society 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
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