Legal Studies is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of law and society. As a department within the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Legal Studies offers its courses to the entire University and maintains a major. There is no minor in Legal Studies. The purpose of this multifaceted program is to develop of the study of law within a liberal arts framework and to explore the myriad ways in which law study is connected with other disciplines pertinent to an understanding of society.
One can say that Legal Studies is education about law, whereas law school is education in law. In fact, as a discipline, Legal Studies is based on the assumption that “law is too important to be left to lawyers.” The critical, humanistic approach of the program encourages students to investigate and develop their attitudes toward law and justice within the context of a growing literature of Legal Studies and related disciplines.
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