Making Change When Change is Hard: the Law, Politics, and Policy of Social Change

Harvard HLS

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class How does social and political change happen? When, why, and how do people, and whole nations, come together to influence large-scale policies and collective action on issues like the environment, equality, criminal justice, and much more? Why do revolutions occur? This course attempts to answer these questions by exploring a diversity of efforts to achieve societal change across various historical and contemporary contexts. In an effort to draw…