Law & Policy Current Courses | Dickinson College

Fall 2024

Course Code	Title/Instructor	Meets
LAWP 290-01	Business Law Instructor: Ashley Grimm Course Description: Cross-listed with INBM 300-08.	06:00 PM-09:00 PM, T ALTHSE 109
LAWP 290-02	Law and Society Instructor: Yalcin Ozkan Course Description: Cross-listed with SOCI 230-01. This course is designed as an introduction to law and society scholarship. Drawing on interdisciplinary debates over law in everyday life, law and social inequality, and the politics of law, we will focus on the laws social, cultural, and political dimensions. Most notably, this course is organized around three major themes. The first topic concerns the theories and methods scholars deploy to account for the affinities between law and social life. We will consider how legal pronouncements and institutions shape and are shaped by our social norms, values, and relationships through the concepts of, among others, legality, legal consciousness, and legal pluralism. The second part deals with the gap between the law on the books and the law in action. We will discuss when and how the law reinforces class, gender, and race-based inequalities despite its ever-present promise of justice. The final section examines the law as constitutive of the status quo and social change by calling attention to politics within and through the law. Thus, we will put as much emphasis on the laws ideological underpinnings as on how people resort to the law to envision and demand systemic change.	03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR DENNY 110
LAWP 400-01	National Security Law Instructor: Harry Pohlman Course Description: Cross-listed with POSC 390-03. This seminar will examine core issues of U.S. national security law, both from the perspective of domestic law (the U.S. Constitution and relevant statutes) and international law (relevant treaties and customary international law). A central theme of the course will be the degree to which policy-makers in the national security field should consider themselves bound by international law. The goal of the course is to expand student awareness of the difficult and complex legal issues that exist in this policy area. Topics that will be addressed include the right to wage war, targeted killing, covert action, interrogation, and military commissions.	01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TW DENNY 110