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2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

LAW 642 - Law and Social Justice


Credits 2 – 3

Examines the role of law in creating, perpetuating, and dismantling hierarchies of power and privilege in society, particularly those based on social/ethnic groupings, gender, socio-economic class, sexual orientation, and disabilities. Enables students to read law critically with an understanding of the ways in which techniques, practices and rhetorical strategies can exclude and subordinate based on categories of identity.