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This course will focus on designing and scaling best practices of sustainability through corporate actions and government legislation. The course is split into 3 parts. First, students will learn the basics of drafting early legislation and starting corporate initiatives in both the US and internationally. Second, students will disrupt the current framework by applying a design thinking approach to corporate initiatives and public policy. Third, the class will focus on scaling the initiatives to create a global impact.

Guest lecturers from Stanford faculty, the Hoover Institution, and the Stanford Institute for International Studies address topics including human rights, international development, U.S. foreign policy, foreign aid, international women's issues, and American interests abroad. Preference to Public Policy majors and students affiliated with Stanford in Government.

Supreme Court decisions that have shaped public policy issues such as civil rights, and science and technology, criminal, environmental, international, and economic law. Guest speakers. The legal system and its interaction with society.

Introduction to the legal principles and judicial holdings underlying current political and social issues litigated in federal courts on constitutional grounds and covered by the media, including abortion, privacy rights, separation of church and state, and campaign finance reform. Introduces prospective law school applicants to the process of reading and discussing judicial opinions.

The seminar will provide an introduction and discussion of the impact of public policy on personal finance. Voters regularly rate the economy as one of the most important factors shaping their political views and most of those opinions are focused on their individual bottom lines. In this course we will discuss the rationale for different public policies and how they affect personal financial situations. We will explore personal finance issues such as taxes, loans, charity, insurance, and pensions. Using the context of (hypothetical) personal finance positions, we will discuss the public policy implications of various proposals and how they affect different groups of people, for example: the implications of differential tax rates for different types of income, the promotion of home ownership in the U.S., and policies to care for our aging population. While economic policy will be the focus of much of the course, we will also examine some of the implications of social policies on personal finance as well.

How policies come to be formed. How interests compete within public institutions to turn ideas into policies. Examples of this process from contemporary policy areas, including tax, social welfare, and environmental policy; results evaluated using equity and efficiency criteria.

Analysis of organizational processes emphasizing organizations that operate in a non-market environment. Prerequisite: ECON 1A.

Ethical issues in science- and technology-related public policy conflicts. Focus is on complex, value-laden policy disputes. Topics: the nature of ethics and morality; rationales for liberty, justice, and human rights; and the use and abuse of these concepts in policy disputes. Case studies from biomedicine, environmental affairs, technical professions, communications, and international relations.

Focus is on the ideal of a just society, and the place of liberty and equality in it, in light of contemporary theories of justice and political controversies. Topics include financing schools and elections, regulating markets, discriminating against people with disabilities, and enforcing sexual morality. Counts as Writing in the Major for PoliSci majors.