Overview
Description
Historical and current perspectives on various aspects of the legal system including the legal profession, the court system, criminology, social services, and academic research. A) England. B) Scotland.
Units
Lecture2
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Attributes
S U Only
Learning Outcomes
- describe and utilize different methods of comparative legal analysis.
- compare constitutional, juvenile, and family laws from other international jurisdictions with domestic law.
- critically evaluate the leading philosophical systems of law and articulate the geographical spread of the leading schools of law across the globe.
- recognize the impact of societal values on legal systems and analyze the virtues and imperfections of concepts employed by a variety of legal systems in formulating legal rules and principles.
- discuss the importance of comparative law in the context of increasing globalization and internationalism.
- explain the history and components of the [country] legal system and juxtapose against the legal system in the United States.
- compare and contrast the social and cultural basis upon which law operates in [country] and the United States.