Law & Society Approved Courses

Overview

Students minoring in Law and Society are required to successfully complete (with a letter grade of B-or better, effective January 2020) 5 approved courses selected from at least 3 different categories, with no more than 2 courses in any one category and no more than 2 courses in any one academic department (NOTE: ILR courses are all considered to be one department). Cross-listed courses can be counted as any of their cross listings.

At the discretion of the Law & Society directors, permission may be granted to substitute an appropriate course that has been:

1. accepted from another educational institution toward the student's degree program (1 course maximum)
2. taken as part of a semester abroad program
3. recently added to the Cornell curriculum

Petitions for course substitutions must be submitted prior to the student's final semester using the Course Petition Form. The completed form should be submitted to the EPL office, 218 Goldwin Smith Hall.

The list below includes all the courses that have been officially approved to count toward Law & Society. For course information, please consult the appropriate department web site or the University's online Courses of Study.

Courses previously designated as ILRCB have been changed to ILRLR.

NOTE: Courses identified as being offered in the Spring 2021 semester (as of 12/3/20) have been highlighted in bold; individual department changes possible.

Category 1: Legal Institutions

Congress and the Legislative Process - GOVT /AMST 3112 

Constitutional Aspects of Labor Law - ILRLR 4890 / 6890

Constitutional Law - LAW 5021

Constitutional Law & American Politics - GOVT 3001

Constitutional Politics: The U.S. Supreme Court - GOVT / LAW 3281

Contemporary Problems in Development and Society - DSOC 4800 

Crime, Politics, & the Law - LAW 4041 

Disability Law - ILRLR 4033 (S'21)

Economics of Criminal Justice Policy - PAM 4340

Employment Discrimination - HADM 4850 (was HADM 4450)

History of the UN - HIST 2163

History of the U.S. Senate - HIST 4030 / GOVT 4218

International Law - GOVT 3898         

Intro to Comparative Government and Politics - GOVT 1313 (S'21)

Intro to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies - FGSS 2010 (S'21)

Judging the Jury - LAW 4122  

Labor and Employment Law - ILRLR 2010 (S'21)

Category 2: Law and Policy

America Confronts The World - GOVT 2817 

America's Promise: Social & Political Context of American Education - AMST / EDUC / DSOC / SOC 2710 / 5710 (S'21)

Arbitration - ILRLR 4022 / 6022             

Behavioral Economics and Public Policy - PAM 3130 / ECON 3670 / PAM 5130 (S'21)

Comparative Labor and Employment Law - ILRIC 4333 / 6333 (was 6012)

Comparative Social Inequalities - DSOC 3700 / SOC 3710 (S'21)         

Competition Law & Policy - LAW 4021 / ECON 3805

Contemporary Italy: Politics & Society - CRP 3720 / CRP 5720 (S'21)

Contract Administration - ILRLR 4040 / ILRLR 6044

Controversies About Inequality - SOC / PAM / DSOC / ILROB  2220, AMST / GOVT 2225, PHIL 1950

Corporations, Shareholders, and Policy - PAM 3340 (S'21)             

Crime and Punishment - GOVT 3121 (S'21)

Dazed & Confused: Politics of Drugs & Alcohol in the U.S. - HIST 2423

Drugs and Society - SOC 2460              

Economics of Consumer Protection and Law - ECON 3830 /4410 / PAM 3410            

Economics of Public Health - PAM / ECON 4380 

Economics of the Public Sector - PAM 2040 

Education, Social Justice, and the Law - GOVT / AMST 4435 / 6635

Environmental Governance - BSOC / DSOC / NTRES / S&TS / 3311         

Environmental Policy Processes II - NTRES 4300 (S'21)

Environmental Sociology - DSOC 3240 / SOC 3240 / STS 3241 (S'21)

Evolving Families: Challenges to Family Policy - PAM / SOC 3360

Exceptionalism Questioned: America & Europe           

Families & Social Inequality - SOC / PAM 4470     

First Amendment - HIST 4060

Foreign Policy, Democracy, & Dictatorship - AMST / GOVT 3988

Gender, Public Policy, and Law - LAW 4121               

Global Comparative Disability Policy - ILRIC 4360

Govt. & Public Policy: An Intro to Analysis & Criticism - AMST / GOVT 4281               

Govt. Gun Control: Constitution, Law, & Politics - GOVT 3222               

Hospitality Industry Labor Relations - see "Labor Relations in the Hosp. Industry" below 

How Do You Know That? - GOVT 3999 

Immigrant America: Race & Citizenship in Modern Working-Class History ILRLR / AMST / LATA / LSP 3065 

Immigration and a Changing America - DSOC 2750

(Im)migration & (Im)migrants Then & Now - GOVT 2152 

Immigration and Public Policy - DSOC / PAM / SOC 3040 / ILRLR 3047 

Immigration: History, Theory, & Practice (see "Immigration Since 1965" below)

Immigration Since 1965 - AMST / HIST / LSP 4850 

Incarceration, Policy Response, and Self-Reflection - AMST / GOVT 3142 / EDUC 3143 (3-4 cr. only) 

Information Policy: Research, Analysis, & Design - COMM 4201

Intellectual Property Law and Policy - PAM 3764 (S'21)

International Conservation - NTRES 4340               

International Labor Law - ILRIC 4344 / 6344               

Intro to Policy Analysis - PAM 2300 

Knowledge, Technology, & Property - STS 4111               

Labor Relations in the Hospitality Industry - ILRLR 4060 / HADM 4481/4810 (frmr. "Hospitality Industry Labor Relations")

Law of the Internet and E-Commerce - HADM 4890 (was HADM 4489)

Managing and Resolving Conflict - ILRLR 4012 / 6012 / LAW 6024 

People, Planning, and Politics in the City - CRP 2010

Pharmaceutical Mgmt. & Policy - PAM 3110 

Political Freedom - GOVT 3735 

Poverty and Social Policy - GOVT 6021

Prisons - AMST / GOVT 3141  

Prisons, Politics, & Policy - GOVT 3152 / AMST 3155       

Public Finance: Resource Allocation & Fiscal Policy - ECON 4904 (was 3360)              

Public Finance: The Microeconomics of Government - ECON 4260 (was 3350)               

Public Policy & African American Urban Community - ASRC 4605               

Refugees - HIST / AMST / LSP 4851 

Schooling, Racial Inequality, & Public Policy in America - SOC 3570 / 4520 (S'21)        

Seminar on Genocide - HIST 2180          

Social Inequality - SOC 2208 / DSOC 2090 / PAM 2208             

Social Movements in American Politics - AMST / GOVT 3021          

Social Policy - PAM 4730               

Social Policy & Social Welfare - CRP 4480 / 5480          

Social Problems in the US (formerly Problems of Contemporary Society) - SOC 2070 / PAM 2250     

Sociology of Health and Ethnic Minorities - DSOC 2200 

Sociology of Race & Education - SOC 4524 / ASRC 4515 

Special Topics in International & Comparative Labor - ILRIC 4340 

Special Topics in Labor Law - ILRLR 3045 / 6045 (S'21)

Statistical Applications in Law & Policy - ILRST 2150

The Economics of Consumer Policy - PAM 3400 (S'21)

The Politics of Change - GOVT 4112 

The US Healthcare System - PAM 2350

Topics in Corporations Policy - PAM 4330 

Urban Inequality - SOC 3380 (S'21)

U.S. in the World - AMST 3149 / CAPS / HIST 3140

War:  Causes & Conduct - GOVT 3867 (S'21)

Work & Family Policy in Comparative Perspective - ILRIC 4315  

Category 3: Law and Social Structure

African American Social History 1910-2000 - ILRLR 3860 / LAW 7060

Afro-American Social Political Thought - AS&RC 2601         

Asian American Politics & Public Policy - AAS 3901         

Death Penalty in America - LAW 4051 / AMST 4051 (S'21)  

Ecology & Politics of the Metropolis - GOVT / HORT 2240

Employment, Inequality, and the Law (see "Low-Wage Workers and the Law" below)

Education, Inequality, & Development - DSOC 3050 

Equality, Liberty, & Democracy - PHIL 1930 / GOVT 2935 / SOC 2930

Ethnoracial Identity in Anthro., Lang., & Law - ANTHR 6424 / LSP 6424 / LAW 7231 (S'21)         

Feminism and Philosophy - PHIL 2490 / FGSS 2490 (S'21)

Feminism and Philosophy - PHIL 4490 / FGSS 4491 (S'21)             

Gender and the Global Economy of the 20th Century - ILRIC 2361 

Global Justice - GOVT 3685 / PHIL 3470 (not currently in Courses of Study listing)           

Global Thinking - GOVT 2947 

"Inequality, Diversity, and Justice" is now "Equality, Liberty, & Democracy," above                     

International Law - HIST 2230               

Intro to Asian American History - HIST / AMST 2640 / AAS 2130

Intro to Peace and Conflict Studies - GOVT 3937

Introduction to the Global Study of Law - LAW 4031         

Latinos, Law, & Identity - AMST 3550 / DSOC 3550 

Law and Society in Early Modern and Modern China - HIST 2132  

Law, Crime & Society in Early Modern Europe - HIST 3730               

Law, Liberty, & Revolution in Early Modern England - HIST 4940 

Low Wage Workers and the Law - ILRLR 6079                

Marriage & Sexuality in Medieval Europe - FGSS 3680 / RELST 3680 / HIST 3680        

Migrant Workers (frmr. Farmworkers) - CRP 3850 / HIST 4310 / LSP 4310 / ILRLR 4020    

People, Planning, & Politics in the City - CRP 2010 (S'21)

Politics of the Global North - ILRIC 4330 / GOVT 3303

Population and Public Policy - PAM 2030 (S'21)

Race & Politics in 20th Century America - AMST 3231                

Race and Public Policy - PAM 3370 / SOC 3370            

Racial & Ethnic Politics in the United States - AMST 3191 / GOVT 3191 / LSP 3191

Refugees & the Politics of Vulnerability: Intersection of Feminist Theory & Practice - GOVT. 3401/AMST 3420/FGSS 3400        

Sex, Power, and Politics - GOVT 3043                

Sexuality and the Law - FGSS 4610 / GOVT 4625           

Social and Psychological Aspects of the Death Penalty - HD 4140 / 6140 

Social Welfare as a Social Institution - PAM 3830 

Sociology of Law - SOC 2560

The Body Politic in Asia - ASIAN 4415/6615, BSOC 4127, FGSS/HIST/CAPS 4127,  FGSS/HIST 6127 

The Court, Crime, and the Constitution - HIST 2020                            

The European Social Model - ILRIC 4325                

The History of the Present - HIST 3343 / GOVT 3646

The Global Perspective on Violence Against Women (see "Violence Against Women: ..." below)

The Politics of Poverty in the U.S. - AMST / GOVT 3012

The Politics of the Inner City - GOVT 4232

The Progressive Era in Work, Law, & Politics - HIST / AMST / ILRLR 3845

The Race and Gender of Poverty in Literature and Film - ENGL/AMST 3690/FGSS 3691 

Theories of Equality & Their Application in the Workplace - ILRLR 6040

Urban Politics - AMST / GOVT 3111          

Urban Transformations in the Global South - CRP 4740              

U.S. Racial and Ethnic Relations - DSOC 3750 

Violence Agnst. Women: Policy Impl., Global Persp. - PAM 4440 / FGSS 4480              

Women in American Society Past & Present - AMST 2730 / FGSS 2730 / HIST 2730

Women in the Economy - ECON 3440 / FGSS 4460 / ILRLE 4450

Writing Seminar in Law - ILRLR 2060 (S'21) 

Category 4: Law and Culture

American Ideals  -  ILRLR 4880

China Under Revolution and Reform - GOVT 2403 

Communication Law - COMM 4280

Comparative Corruption - GOVT 3683 / SOC 3680 (S'21)

Comparative Politics of Lat. Amer. - GOVT 3293 / DSOC / LATA 3290 

Conflict Resolution in Medieval Europe - HIST 4360               

Conflict, Dispute Resolution, & Law in Cultural Context - ANTHR 3428              

Copyright in the Digital Age - COMM 4290 / INFO 4290           

Culture, Law, and the Politics of the Internet - INFO 5150 

Devel. of Economic Thought and Institutions - ILRLE 3440 / ECON 3300 (S'21)            

Drugs and Gangs - PAM 4360

Economics and the Law - ECON 3800 / 4040            

Feminist Theory/Law & Society - AMST 4635               

Governing Economic Development: The US Experience - ILRLR 3071

History of Modern Middle East in the 20th Century - NES / HIST / JWST 2674/ GOVT 2747 

History of State and Society in Modern Iran (Through Literature and Film) - NES / HIST 3519 (S'21)

History of the Israeli-Palestinean Conflict - NES 3697 / GOVT 397 / JWST 36977 

Human Rights and Literature - ENGL 3930 

Informa. Policy: Research, Analysis & Design - INFO / STS 4200 / COMM 4201  

Information, Technology, & Society - INFO 6210 

Kinship and Social Organization - ANTHR 3423    

Language and the Law - LING 2223

Law and Literature - ENGL 3762 / 6710, GOVT 6045, LAW 6710 

Law, Latinos, and Illegality - AMST / ANTHR / LSP 3762          

Law, Science, and Public Values - B&SOC 4071 / S&TS 4071           

Law, Science, and Sustainability - LAW 4081              

Law, Society, and Culture - NES 3551              

Memory and the Law - HD 3190 

Middle Eastern Politics - GOVT 3313 / NES 3550               

Multiculturalism in Israel - JWST / NES 3767, GOVT 3766, SOC 3760

Origins of the Social - HIST 2330         

Policing and Prisons in American Culture - AMST 3970 / ENGL 3970           

Political Theory and Cinema - PMA3490 

Politics and Culture - GOVT 3633 / SOC 2480

Politics of Violence in 20th Cent. Europe - HIST / JWST 2711 / GOVT 2716 

Populism, Democracy, and Authoritarianism - GOVT 3284 

Psychology and the Law - PSYCH / LAW / HD 2650              

Recent History of American Workers - ILRLR / AMST 3060

Resource Management & Environmental Law - CRP 4440 / 5440 / NTRES 4440 (S'21)    

Roman Law - CLASS / FGSS / GOVT 2806, LAW 6803

Science, Race, & Colonialism - HIST 4751 / S&TS 4751    

Surveillance and Privacy - INFO 4250 / LAW 6882 

Technology, Policy, and the Law - PAM 4650

The Asian Century: The Rise of China and India - ILRIC / ASIAN 3380, AEM 3388, GOVT 3384 / 6384, CAPS 3387, ILRIC 5380 

The New Latin American State - ANTHR / LATA 4732

The United States - AMST / ANTHR / LSP 3777 

Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in North American History - HIST 4662 / AMST 4301

Values in Law, Economics, & Indust. Relations (see "Values, Rights, and Justice at Work" below)

Values, Rights, and Justice at Work - ILRLR 6070 / 4075 (S'21)

Varieties of American Dissent - AMST 3240 / HIST 3240

Category 5: Law and Ethics

Advanced Topics in Clinical Ethics - STS / BSOC 4650 (S'21)

Animal Rights - LAW 7072  (S'21)

Applied Environmental Philosophy - NTRES 4330   

Biblical Law Seminar - RELST / COML 4260 

Biblical Seminar II - COML 4280 / RELST 4280         

Christianity and Judaism - COML 3260 / RELST 3260

Contemporary Moral Issues - PHIL 1450               

Ethical Issues in Engineering Practice - ENGRG 3600 / STS 3601 (S'21)

Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine - B&SOC 2051 / S&TS 2051          

Ethics - PHIL 2410  (S'21)             

Ethics and Health Care - PHIL 2450                

Ethics and the Environment - BSOC / STS 2061 / PHIL 2960 (S'21)

Ethics at Work - ILRLR 4820 (S'21)             

Ethics in International Relations - GOVT 4917 (next offered 2014-15) 

Ethics in New Media, Technology, and Communication - COMM 4300 

Ethics of Eating - PHIL 1440 (was 2411)      

Ethics, Public Policy, and American Society - PAM 5310              

Health Care Services: Consumer & Ethical Perspectives - PAM 5520              

HR, Ethics, and Corporate Responsibility - ILRHR 4663

Human Rights and Global Justice - GOVT / AMST 3635

Human Rights and Government - GOVT 4819

Human Rights, Ethics and Literature - ENGL 2781

Human Rights: Ideals and Realities - ENGL 2890

Information Ethics, Law, & Policy - INFO 1200 / STS 1201 

International Humanitarianism - HIST 2791               

Introduction to Bioethics - PHIL 2455

Introduction to Ethics and the Environment - NTRES 3320 (S'21)              

Introduction to the Qur'an - NES 2556 / JWST 2556          

Justice and Equality - GOVT 4796 / GOVT 6796 / PHIL 6996

Law, Society, and Culture in the Middle East - NES 3651             

Law, Society, and Morality - PHIL 1960 (S'21)

Literature as Moral Inquiry - ENGL 4020            

Modern Political Philosophy - GOVT 3625 / PHIL 3460 (S'21)          

Moral Dilemmas in the Law - GOVT 2432 / PHIL 2430 / LAW 6303

Philosophy of Law - PHIL 3480 (S'21)

Philosophy of Punishment - PHIL 3475 *

Sex, Power, and Politics - GOVT 3043 

Social and Political Philosophy - PHIL 2420 / GOVT 2605

Terrorism - GOVT 3022

The Dark Side of Biol.: Biol. Weapons, Bioterrorism, and Biocriminality - STS / BSOC / GOVT 4711               

The U.S. Constitution: Crisis, Change, and Legitimacy - LAW 3290 / GOVT 3072 

Topics in Law & Legal Ethics - GOVT 3102 

Topics in Social & Political Philosophy - PHIL 4470 / GOVT /AMST 4655 / SOC 4430             

Values in Law, Economics, & Industrial Relations - ILRLR 4075 / 6070 

Weapons of Mass Destruction - GOVT 3847              

Workers Rights as Human Rights - ILRLR 3830 (S'21) 

Workplace Health and Safety as a Human Right - ILRIC 3342