Law & Society Approved Courses
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Overview
Students minoring in Law and Society are required to successfully complete (with a letter grade of C+ or better) 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:
- accepted from another educational institution toward the student's degree program (1 course maximum)
- taken as part of a semester abroad program
- 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 2020 semester have been highlighted in bold.
Category 1: Legal Institutions
American Constitutional Development - AMST 3180 / HIST 3180
American Political Development in the 20th Century - AMST 4041 / GOVT 4041
Am. Political Thought Madison to Malcom X - AMST 3665 / GOVT 3665 / HIST 3160
Children and the Law - HD 3330
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
Economics of Criminal Justice Policy - PAM 4340
Employment Discrimination - HADM 4850 (was HADM 4450)
Enduring Global & American Issues (Cornell in Washington) - GOVT / AMST 3071
Environmental Law - CRP 4510
Environmental Politics - CRP 3800
Fighting Discrimination in the Workplace: Employment Discrimination and the Law - ILRLR 4842 / 6840
History of Law - HIST 1600
History of the UN - HIST 2163
History of the U.S. Senate - HIST 4030 / GOVT 4218
International Law - GOVT 3898
International Laws of War - HIST 1630
Intro to Comparative Government and Politics - GOVT 1313
Intro to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies - FGSS 2010
Judging the Jury - LAW 4122
Labor and Employment Law - ILRLR 2010
Law and Literature - ENGL 3762 / 6710, GOVT 6045, LAW 6710
NYS Govt. Affairs: Capital Semester in Albany - PAM 3920
Orange is the New Black (formerly Prisons and Society) - AMST 2615 / PAM 2610 / SOC 2610
Politics & Policy: Theory, Research, & Practice - ALS 4998 / AMST 4998 / CAPS 4998 / GOVT 4998 / PAM 4060
Politics of Nations Within - GOVT 3645
Politics of Public Policy - GOVT 3032 *NEW ADDITION* Fall '18
Regulating Financial Institutions - PAM 3440
The American Legal System: Nature, Functions, Institutions - GOVT 3150
The American Presidency - AMST 3161 / GOVT 3161
The Birth of the Prison - HIST 4945 / 6945
The History of the U.S. Prison - HIST 2422
The Nature, Functions, and Limits of Law - AMST 3131 / GOVT 3131 / LAW 4131
The Old English Laws - ENG 4190 / HIST 4691
The U.S. Supreme Court and Crime - AMST 3202 / GOVT 3202
U.S. Congress - GOVT 3181 / AMST 3181
Category 2: Law and Policy
America's Promise: Social & Political Context of American Education - AMST / EDUC / DSOC / SOC 2710 / 5710
Arbitration - ILRLR 4022 / 6022
Behavioral Economics and Public Policy - PAM 3130 / ECON 3670 / PAM 5130
Comparative Labor and Employment Law - ILRIC 4333 / 6333 (was 6012)
Comparative Social Inequalities - DSOC 3700 / SOC 3710
Competition Law & Policy - LAW 4021 / ECON 3805
Contemporary Italy: Politics & Society - CRP 3720 / CRP 5720
Contract Administration - ILRLR 4040 / ILRLR 6044
Corporations, Shareholders, and Policy - PAM 3340
Dazed & Confused: Politics of Drugs & Alcohol in the U.S. - HIST 2423
Drugs and Society - SOC 2460
Economics of Consumer Laws and Protection - 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
Environmental Sociology - DSOC 3240 / SOC 3240 / STS 3241
Evolving Families: Challenges to Family Policy - PAM / SOC 3360
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
Immigrant America: Rae & Citizenship in Modern Working-Class History ILRLR / AMST / LATA / LSP 3065
Immigration and a Changing America - DSOC 2750
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
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 2070
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 *NEW ADDITION* Fall '18
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
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 Policy Under Globalization - ILRIC 4340
Social Problems in the US (formerly Problems of Contemporary Society) - SOC 2070 / PAM 2250
Sociology of Health and Ethnic Minorities - DSOC 2200 *NEW ADDITION* Fall '18
Sociology of Race & Education - SOC 4524 / ASRC 4515
Special Topics in Labor Law - ILRLR 3045 / 6045
Statistical Applications in Law & Policy - ILRST 2150
The Economics of Consumer Policy - PAM 3400
The Politics of Change - GOVT 4112
The US Healthcare System - PAM 2350
Topics in Corporations Policy - PAM 4330
Urban Inequality - SOC 3380
U.S. in the World - AMST 3149 / CAPS / HIST 3140
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
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
Feminism and Philosophy - PHIL 2490 / FGSS 2490
Feminism and Philosophy - PHIL 4490 / FGSS 4491
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 Peace and Conflict Studies - GOVT 3937
Intro to Asian American History - HIST / AMST 2640 / AAS 2130
Latinos, Law, & Identity - AMST 3550 / DSOC 3550
Law and Society in Early Modern and Modern China - HIST 2132 *NEW ADDITION* Fall '18
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
Politics of the Global North - ILRIC 4330 / GOVT 3303
Population and Public Policy - PAM 2030
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
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 Death Penalty - LAW 4051
The EU and its Social Model - ILRIC 3320
The History of the Present - HIST 3343
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 *NEW ADDITION* Fall '18
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
Category 4: Law and Culture
China Under Revolution and Reform - GOVT 2403
Communication Law - COMM 4280
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
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 Israeli-Palestinean Conflict - NES 3697 / GOVT 397 / JWST 36977
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
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, 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
Liberty and Justice for All - ILRLR 4880
Middle Eastern Politics - GOVT 3313 / NES 3550
Memory and the Law - HD 3190
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 *NEW ADDITION* Fall '18
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 *NEW ADDITION* Fall '18
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
Roman Law - CLASS / FGSS / GOVT 2806, LAW 6803
Science, Race, & Colonialism - HIST 4751 / S&TS 4751
Surveillance and Privacy - INFO 4250 / LAW 6882 *NEW ADDITION* Fall '18
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
Varieties of American Dissent - AMST 3240 / HIST 3240
Category 5: Law and Ethics
Animal Rights - LAW 7072 (spring 2015)
Applied Environmental Philosophy - NTRES 4330
Biblical Law Seminar - RELST / COML 4260
Biblical Seminar - COML 4280 / RELST 4280
Christianity and Judaism - COML 3260 / RELST 3260
Clinical Ethics, Advanced Topics - STS / BSOC 4650
Contemporary Moral Issues - PHIL 1450
Ethical Issues in Engineering Practice - ENGRG 3600 / STS 3601
Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine - B&SOC 2051 / S&TS 2051
Ethics - PHIL 2410
Ethics and Health Care - PHIL 2450
Ethics and New Media, Technology, and Communication - COMM 4300
Ethics and the Environment - BSOC / STS 2061 / PHIL 2960
Ethics at Work - ILRLR 4820
Ethics in International Relations - GOVT 4917 (next offered 2014-15)
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
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
Literature as Moral Inquiry - ENGL 4020
Modern Political Philosophy - GOVT 3625 / PHIL 3460
Moral Dilemmas in the Law - GOVT 2432 / PHIL 2430 / LAW 6303
Philosophy of Law - PHIL 3480
Sex, Power, and Politics - GOVT 3043
Social and Political Philosophy - PHIL 2420
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 *NEW ADDITION, SPRING '20*
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
Workplace Health and Safety as a Human Right - ILRIC 3342