MEDIEVAL LAW AND SOCIETY

LEGALST 450

Addresses a variety of issues linking various humanities perspectives to the central themes of law and legal institutions.

HISTORY/LEGALST 261

Surveys the development of American law down to the U.S. Civil War. Reviews the English historical background, and examines how law changed in colonial America, culminating in the framing of the U.S. Constitution. Explores how territorial expansion, democracy, and slavery shaped nineteenth-century American law. Emphasis is on how law interacts with political, social, and cultural change, with a focus on the origins of modern civil and constitutional rights.

LEGALST/POLISCI 217

Introduction to the legal process. Examination of the various concepts of law, the perennial problems of the law, legal reasoning, and the nature and function of law and the courts.

HISTORY 115

From the later Roman Empire to the end of the Middle Ages.

HISTORY/LEGALST 426

Examines punishment across a vast range of historical traditions, examining how wrongdoing and punishment have been figured in law, literature, art and philosophy. Examines ancient, medieval and modern traditions.