Must be taken concurrently with LawSo 2. Intellectual Property . The historical development, current status, and future of Western intellectual property law. The ways in which intellectual property law affects the cultural, economic, and political fabric of society. Challenges to intellectual property law in an age of instantaneously reproducible and transmissible digitized information.
Jurisprudence is the study of the principles underlying judicial decision making.
This course offers a general introduction to the Anglo-American tradition of jurisprudential thought. Gender and the Law. Introduction to historical and contemporary relationships between gender and the law, including debates about the rights, responsibilities, benefits, etc. of men and women under the law. Lawyers and the Legal Profession. Survey of the broad professional, economic, political, and social roles played by lawyers and legal organizations in the United States.