FA23-LEGAL

The course will focus on civil law and will deal with issues that are unique to each of the respective civil trial courts. Case studies will address the manner in which disputes are resolved by trial or settlement. Some of the issues to be examined are termination of parental rights, sexually dangerous person proceedings and administrative agency appeals. The course will also focus on the equitable jurisdiction of the courts, contract actions and an introduction to real property rights. The course will also cover the resolution of civil claims through the jury trial process - tort actions, including medical malpractice claims, libel, sexual harassment, actions based upon discrimination and unfair or deceptive business practices.

This course provides a structured context for students to reflect on their own learning in their GenEd courses. It utilizes social and behavioral sciences - as well as natural and applied sciences, the humanities, law, and even the arts from time to time ? to practice constitutive socio-legal inquiry, and applies this theory to multiple real world settings. We are going to use the ?angle? of sight as our vehicle for attempting to gain a better understanding of the way that law shapes our realities ? and in turn how those set the parameters for law. Simply, what we see around us ? and how we know, make sense of, and engage with it --? is the product of a myriad of social and physical forces; our project in this class is to look at law as a central player in several specific contexts AS WELL AS the site of continued contests about them. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Legal or BA-Polsci majors.

This course will examine the complex origins and manifestations of the conflict and peace on the island of Ireland with a concentration on the north of Ireland/Northern Ireland between 1969 and the present. We will explore the enduring elements of this protracted conflict and the multiple avenues through which peace and justice have been constructed. The mediation process which resulted in the 1998 Belfast Agreement (Good Friday Agreement) will be examined in depth from the perspective of the parties as well as the mediator. We will explore the present day challenges to reconstruct an economy, create a shared future and deal with the legacy of the past in the wake of decades of violence and in the context of a newly implemented powersharing government. `Post-conflict' conflict transformation at the `coalface' as well as in the social fabric and governmental structures will be the focus of the latter part of the semester.