Undergraduate Legal Studies Program Renovation CULJP Annual Meeting, June 1, 2011 Presented by Michael Musheno

1. Undergraduate Legal Studies Program RenovationCULJP Annual Meeting, June 1, 2011 Presented by Michael Musheno

2. Program Biography • Major in the College of Letters & Science • Liberal Arts Curriculum Focused on Law, Legality, Legal Institutions • Initial Classes Offered in1977 as Ph.D. (JSP) Counterpart • Home in the Law School

3. Faculty & Governance of Legal Studies • Governance: Associate Dean of Jurisprudence & Social Policy, Program Director • Faculty: Core JSP Faculty with Broad J.D. Involvement • Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs)

4. Historical Legal Studies B.A. Major Requirements • University General Requirements and College of Letters and Science Requirements • Legal Studies Prerequisites, with a requirement of 2 of the 4 areas completed before declaring major. • Statistics • Economics • Philosophy • European History • Required: 2.0 UCB GPA, 2.0 Prerequisites GPA and 2.0 GPA in any Legal Studies Courses Taken • Legal Studies Requirements, 32 unit requirement • Four Areas (at least 1 course completed in each Area required) • Theory • Historical/Comparative • Substantive • Administration of Justice

5. Legal Studies Course Offerings & Enrollment Figures: Fall 2007 – Spring 2010

6. Majors in Legal Studies • Mean Annual Graduates (1999-2010): 166 / Mean Annual Graduates (1979-1999): 56 • Graduates to Date: 2,950 / Mean Annual Declared Majors (1999-2009): 271

7. Demographics of Legal Studies Graduates:1993-2010 1 Data from UC Berkeley, Cal Profiles (https://secure.vcbf.berkeley.edu/calprofiles), percentages add only to 90.98% because of non-reported International students and the Decline to State, No Ethnic Data, Other, and Unknown categories.

8. Legal Studies Student Post-Degree Activities: Class of 2010 1 Data from UC Berkeley, Career Center (https://career.berkeley.edu/Major2008/LegalStud.stm), Response Rate of Class of 2008 48% (73 of 152).

9. Research & Civic Engagement

10. Curricular Concerns At Outset of Renovation Process • No Intensive Reading and Composition Courses • No Introductory Course for the Major • Distribution Requirement Areas Are Outdated: Theory, History/Comparative, Substantive, Administration of Justice • Capstone Offerings Not As Robust As Student Interests

11. Pedagogy: Intellectual Foundations • Examine law as a major social institution • Engage in interdisciplinary inquiry spanning social sciences and humanities • Develop critical thinking and writing skills of liberal arts education • Instill capacities to search, understand and interpret logics of jurisprudential, social sciences and humanities research • Understand normative and empirical theories about law and legal institutions related to order, change and inequality • Explore connections between law and other social institutions • Promote engagement with social policy

12. Curricular Innovations in Place for 2011-12 Academic Year • Development of a Reading/Composition Courses • Development of a Gateway/Foundational Course • Enhancement of Honors Program • Senior Seminars in Faculty Research Areas • Summer School Program Expansion • Permanent Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

13. Gateway Course and Basic Knowledge about Law and Legal Institutions • Understand core theories about the relationship between law and society. • Be introduced to core features of the American legal system. • Understand basic legal terminology, legal concepts, legal actors, and modes of legal reasoning. • Become acquainted with legal systems other than our own, including how they compare to the American legal system. • Develop insights into how law has evolved through time, including the temporal and geographical transformation of legal processes and systems from community to nation-state to global.

14. Core Legal Studies Courses • Theories of Law and Society • Theories of Justice • Comparative Perspectives on Norms/Legal Traditions • Law, Politics and Society • Sociology of Law • Survey of American Legal and Constitutional History • Punishment, Culture and Society • Law and Economics

15. Proposed Areas or Neighborhoods for Distribution Requirements (Breadth: 3/5; Depth: 3 Deep in One) • Crime, Law and Social Control • Law and Markets • Law and Sovereignty • Law, Rights, and Social Change • Law and Culture

16. An Example Legal Studies Neighborhood: Law & Sovereignty Law & Sovereignty • Course Examples: • Theories of Justice (LS107) • Philosophy and Law in Ancient Athens (LS119) • Comparative Perspectives on Norms and Legal Traditions (LS139) • International Relations and International Law (LS157) • European Legal History (LS171) • Comparative Constitutional Law (LS179)

17. An Example Legal Studies Neighborhood: Crime, Law & Social Control Crime, Law & Social Control • Course Examples: • Policing & Society (LS 102) • Theoretical Foundations of Criminal Law (LS 105) • Law and Economics (LS 145) • Punishment, Culture and Society (LS 160) • Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice (LS 163)

18. An Example Legal Studies Neighborhood: Law & Markets Law & Markets • Course Examples: • Theories of Justice (LS107) • Property & Liberty (LS 140) • Property, Privacy and Personhood (LS 141) • Comparative Private Law (LS 144) • Law & Economics I (LS 145) • Law & Economics II (LS 147)

19. An Example Legal Studies Neighborhood: Law, Rights & Social Change Law, Rights & Social Change • Course Examples: • Immigration and Citizenship (LS 132AC) • The Supreme Court & Public Policy (LS 138) • International Human Rights (LS 154) • Sociology of Law (LS 194) • Gender, Law & Society (LS 186) • Feminist Jurisprudence (LS 189)

20. An Example Legal Studies Neighborhood: Law & Culture Law & Culture • Course Examples: • Legal Discourse (LS 116) • Philosophy and Law in Ancient Athens (LS 119) • Law, Self & Society (LS 151) • Government and the Family (LS 155) • Law in Chinese Society (LS 161) • Psychology and the Law (LS 181)

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