Law and Justice

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

Law structures our moral lives and the world we inhabit in myriad ways. It regulates how we interact with others, how we are educated, what kinds of things we can own and sell, what we owe our communities, and how we can be sanctioned if we act outside the law. The law shapes and executes what justice amounts to in practice. In this course, we will consider a variety of questions raised by life under the American legal system, focusing in particular on what justice looks like in different areas of law and how different conceptions of justice are argued for and evaluated.