POL S 363 A: Law in Society

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Instructor: Jonathan Beck
Office hours: Tuesday & Thursday 9:30-10:30
Office: Gowen 025
E-mail: jcbeck@uw.edu

Lectures: TTh from 11:30-12:50 in HCK 132

Teaching Assistants:

Meagan Carmack (mcarmack@uw.edu) 

Cameron Yonan (cmyonan@uw.edu) 

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.