Introduction to Law and Society
How to read for this class:
1. Find the main argument of the article (the
basic idea)
2. Find the evidence used to support the main
argument (including key assumptions)
3. Think about potential criticisms of the
author’s argument and evidence
Unit 1
Legal
Systems of the World: Common Law, Civil Law, Socialist Law and Religious Law
Exemplary
systems: U.S., France, China, Saudi Arabia
Unit 2
Constitution of the United
States (focus particularly on Article I)
Death
Penalty Information Center
Bjerk, The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion
Unit 3
Constitutional
race provisions
Is White the
only color of success?
Thompson, DNA
Evidence in the OJ Simpson Trial
Unit 4
Note: if the type
is too small to read, click “view” and then “zoom” on the menu bar.
Marger, The Elite Model - Section 1
and Section
2
Parenti,
Democracy for the Few - Section 1
and Section
2
Schlafly,
The subversive plan to ditch the Electoral College
Outline of the U.S.
Legal System
Herman &
Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent - Section 1
and Section
2
Florida
Probe into Election 2000
What
Congress Should Consider Before Renewing the Voting Rights Act
Unit 5
Ten Top Reasons to Oppose
the FTAA
The World Bank and
International Monetary Fund
Selections from
the State of the Union Address, 1901
Edelman,
Organizational Internalization of Law
The World Trade
Organization and the Prison Industrial Complex
International
Monetary Fund, Globalization: Threat or Opportunity?
Unit 6
Giddens, A Brief Introduction to Sociology
Foucault,
The Birth of the Prison
Niven, The
Jigsaw Man
Pope
condemns geneticists 'who play at being God.'