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Prerequisites: LWPS 230, CJ 230, PSCI 308 and LW 300 and with permission of the instructor. The Pre-Law Clinic provides students with hands-on experience by conducting investigations, legal research, and preparing real cases for trial. The Clinic has a classroom seminar and collaborative investigative component. Note: There is an application process to participate in Pre-Law Clinic. Please contact Professor Bean for more information. 

Corequisite: LWCJ 401A. Grading is satisfactory/unsatisfactory. The Pre-Law Clinic provides students with hands-on experience by conducting investigations, legal research, and preparing real cases for trial. The Clinic has a classroom seminar and collaborative investigative component.

Prerequisites: Completion of LWCJ 401A and LWCJ 401B and by permission of the instructor. The Pre-Law Clinic II permits students to continue their PTC client and project work through the spring semester.

Corequisite: LWCJ 401A and LWCJ 401B and by permission of the instructor. The Pre-Law Clinic II permits students to continue their PTC client and project work through the spring semester.

Prerequisites: PSCI 215 or LWPS 230 or PSCI 307, or permission by instructor This course will investigate the basic question underlying the debate over the utility of international law. The influence of global civil society, multinational corporations, and other non-state actors in the development and application of international law will be examined.

Prerequisite: This course is open only to senior Law and Criminal Justice majors. This course focuses on the relationship between law and its social context, how law is used for the attainment of the goals of particular interest and pressure groups within society, and looks at the current critical legal theory debates occurring in the academic and legal arenas. The relationship between law, social change and political interests will also be explored.

Prerequisite: By invitation of the department. The departmental honors paper is a two-semester senior-year program designed for students who wish to pursue intensive research or special projects in close coordination with faculty advisers. Departmental honors students are known as the Christine P. Tischer Scholars and receive 6 credits for this work.