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LSJ / POLS 363: Law in Society

Instructor: Jonathan Beck
Office hours: Mondays 1:00-2:00 p.m. and Wednesdays 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Office: Gowen 025
E-mail: jcbeck@uw.edu

Lectures: MW from 8:30-9:50 in THO 101 

Teaching Assistants:

Sebastian Mayer (Sections AA & AB)
E-mail: sebmayer@uw.edu
Office Hours: M 10:30-12:30, Gowen 36

Becca Peach (Sections AC & AD)
E-mail: rlpeach@uw.edu
Office Hours:

Course Overview

What is law? Where do we find law? How does law matter? This class explores these fundamental questions about the roles that law plays in organizing contemporary social and political life. We will consider various ways of understanding how law shapes and enables social interaction and disputing, how law constructs (racial, gender, class, sexual) differences among people and their social status, and how law mediates, enforces, and at times alters hierarchical power relationships.  In the process, we will explore how we are all legal actors as well as legal subjects, if unequally so.