printer friendly pageLAW 550: Uses of Policy Analysis in the Law
Uses of policy analysis in substantive and procedural law reform and the practical and political constraints that limit its usefulness. Case study approach, including examples of policy analyses that played a role in recent policy debates, in the legislative arena, and in key court decisions. Previous topics include capital punishment, school vouchers, class actions, racial profiling, three-strikes laws, gun control, and gays in the military. Final paper. Prerequisite:
LAW 383.
Last offered: Winter 2009
LAW 565: Immigration Law: Current Constitutional and Civil Rights Issues
Issues related to the constitutional and civil rights of immigrants. Focus is on the statutory framework regulating the admission of non-citizens and the constitutional principles that govern immigration law and policy. Issues may include restrictions on federal court jurisdiction over immigration matters, detention of non-citizens, public and private discrimination on the basis of alienage, labor and workplace rights of immigrant workers, refugee and asylum law, post 9/11 issues, local and state laws targeting immigrants, and matters pending in the Supreme Court. Guest lecturers.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
LAW 576: Sexual Orientation and The Law
How the law addresses contested contemporary issues concerning sexual orientation. Constitutional, criminal, family, and anti-discrimination law. Regulation of sexual conduct, discrimination in the military and Boy Scouts, the law concerning sexual minorities as parents, conflicts between sexual and religious freedom, and the role of direct democracy in shaping sexual orientation law. Debate over same-sex marriage. Emerging sexual identities such as transsexuality and intersexuality. Interdisciplinary focus on how social, cultural and political forces shape, and are shaped by, legal doctrine. How gender structures sexual orientation debates.
Last offered: Winter 2009
LAW 581: Workshop in Sociology of Law
(Same as
SOC 338.) Required for joint degree J.D./Ph.D. students in Sociology in the first three years of program; open to Ph.D. students in Sociology and related disciplines. Empirical, sociological study of law and legal institutions. Topics such as the relation of law to inequality and stratification, social movements, organizations and institutions, political sociology and state development, and the social construction of disputes and dispute resolution processes. Research presentations. Career development issues. May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Winter 2008
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1 times
(up to 3 units total)
LAW 585: Introduction to Transnational Law
International aspects of modern legal practice. Public and private international law, and comparative law. Case studies focus on human rights, environment, trade, and commercial law. National sovereignty in the era of globalization, the democratic deficit of international institutions, theories about why nations obey or disobey international law, how nations internalize or reject international norms, how international institutions interact with national legal systems, and the role of non-state actors in the international system.
Last offered: Winter 2009
LAW 599: Climate Change Workshop
Students prepare papers to be used as technical support for problems that arise in the negotiations for the new global climate change agreement. Examples of paper subjects include analyzing the performance of proposed financial mechanisms in support of climate favoring technologies, the roles of intellectual property in facilitating or impeding technology diffusion, and the effectiveness of existing or past efforts to influence technology innovation at national or international levels. Focus is on output to those questions framed by the negotiation issues where bottlenecks may be avoided through improved technical support. (Semester schedule)
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 6 units total)
LAW 603: Environmental Law and Policy
Federal environmental laws, regulatory structures. and environmental policies. The property law roots of environmental law and current primary analytical frameworks of use in understanding environmental law and policy. Federal statutes including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, Superfund (CERCLA), and the Resource Recovery and Conservation Act. Case studies from environmental cases and controversies.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 3 units total)
LAW 604: Environmental Law Workshop: Clean Technology
Current research and work in environmental and natural resources field focused on clean technologies. Academics, policy makers, and business leaders from various disciplines present current research or work. May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 5 units total)
LAW 608: Environmental Science for Managers and Policy Makers
(Same as
IPER 335,
OIT 338.) Core course for joint J.D. or M.B.A. and M.S. in Environment and Resources. How to apply scientific understanding to business operations, strategy, and the design of market-based environmental policy. Fundamentals of earth systems and environmental science. Spreadsheet modeling, optimization, and Monte Carlo simulation.
Last offered: Winter 2009
LAW 611: International Conflict Resolution Colloquium
(Same as
PSYCH 283,
POLISCI 403.) Sponsored by the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN). Conflict, negotiation, and dispute resolution with emphasis on conflicts and disputes with an international dimension, including conflicts involving states, peoples, and political factions such as the Middle East and Northern Ireland. Guest speakers. Issues including international law, psychology, and political science, economics, anthropology, and criminology.
Last offered: Winter 2009
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