26 courses with the subject LEG, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Topics include the structure of the criminal justice system; the impact of the Supreme Court on criminal justice; and the process of arrest, prosecution, and sentencing.
An exploration of the day-to-day applications of civil law: who can sue and be sued, the basis for lawsuits, and how to win cases. Through case studies and mock litigation, students explore such issues as product liability, medical malpractice, negligence, strict liability, and legal procedure, including document production and the use of expert witnesses.
A course that examines legal literacy and its conventions, and how law merges moral argument, interpretive practice, and the use of power in the regulation of social life. Students engage with primary legal texts and explore their interpretations, meanings and applications in the world, while building skills in analysis, argumentation, research and writing.
An introduction to forensic science that combines lecture, discussion, lab investigation, and case studies. Students examine the history, concepts, and physical evidence of crime scenes, and experiment with common techniques used in forensics (i.e., fingerprinting, DNA extraction, shoe/tire imprints, broken glass, ballistics, hair and fibers, chromatography, forgery, blood spatter, arson, toxicology). Coursework employs interactive case law analysis to contextualize topics.
An examination of how law functions (or malfunctions), using contemporary films to illustrate the U.S. criminal justice system. Students review a series of films and compare them to literature and contemporary realities. Topics include arrest, interrogation, and the right to an attorney; preparation for trial and jury selection; the conduct of a trial, including opening statements, examinations and cross-examinations of witnesses, and sentencing; and imprisonment.
Battles over civil rights in the U.S. have involved both civil disobedience and widespread violence. This course examines the legal context of civil disobedience, key periods of political unrest and resistance in U.S. history, and the wider sociolegal changes associated with them. Students engage with landmark constitutional cases, statutory frameworks, and relevant legal theory.
Introduces the juvenile justice system and alternatives to traditional justice responses. Coursework examines the history of youth in the U.S. justice system alongside emergent comprehensive intervention approaches, including positive youth development, trauma-informed praxis, integration of social services, restorative justice, community justice, and related policy reform initiatives. Students explore the cradle-to-prison pipeline and youth pathways through the justice system.
Focuses on major Supreme Court decisions pertaining to civil liberties. Caselaw examined includes: privacy, free expression, free exercise of religion, reproductive rights, and same-sex marriage. Students gain a deeper understanding of the current state of the law on major civil liberties issues and a grasp on how Supreme Court decisions affect everyday life.
Topics include the mechanism of the U.S. jury system; the truth-seeking process of juries; the concepts of mistrials, jury nullification, and hung juries; and a consideration of whether trial by jury is the best method for attaining justice. Students participate in a week-by-week mock trial, permitting hands-on experience in jury selection, opening statements, cross-examination, and summation.
The law touches everyone from conception to the grave and beyond. Family interactions between spouses, parents, children, and elders are dictated by rights and duties defined in the law. This course explores how the law weaves in and out of family structures in an attempt to protect and preserve certain rights and values.
Questions of justice are as old as civilization and involve historically and culturally contingent processes. How do we understand justice in light of widening disparities between groups of people across contemporary societies? Students examine how definitions of justice are interpreted, mediated and put into practice, particularly as part of public policy and the social institutions that structure our lives.
U.S. environmental law and policy, the common-law foundations of environmental law, and the regulatory process and toolkit are examined. The focus is on major environmental statutes: the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, the Compensation and Recovery Act (Superfund), and the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Students learn how to engage in the research process in the practice of law and assess law’s impact on a range of areas (e.g., consumer rights; the rights of women, students, minorities, and immigrants the rights of both the accused and the victims of crime).
Examines copyright law in artistic practice from a global and multidisciplinary perspective. Students examine rules that govern the protection of creative work and explore the role law plays in mediating questions of authorship, attribution, and creative control. Coursework covers applications of copyright in music, visual art, performance, literature, video games, fashion, and social media. Students engage in legal analysis and artistic experimentation in parallel.
The study of law from a liberal arts perspective, emphasizing the role that law and the legal order play in the institutional arrangements and human relations of a society. The course examines the basic concepts, language, institutions, and forms of law that characterize the American legal order.
Explores the American legal system and examines the role of each branch of government-executive, legislative, and judicial-in shaping the laws that govern the right to free speech and the right to privacy, along with conflicts between those two rights that arise in the media, the private sector, and public institutions.
Focuses on current legal issues such as abortion, the death penalty, and affirmative action. The pivotal Supreme Court cases establishing the law in each area are read. In addition, research in sociology and psychology is examined to understand the conditions that led to the key court decisions and the impact of those decisions on society.
A seminar that examines the legal, political, and social history of critical legal theory related to race, gender, indigeneity, and the environment. Students engage with case law and theoretical texts that explore the power dynamics embedded in law, historically and into the present day, with a focus on alternative frameworks that surface at the margins of dominant legal structures. PREREQ: LEG2015 Or LBS3024
Debates over historical monuments, statues, and collective memory have become flashpoints across the United States and the world. How do we understand the contentious historical landscapes that configure these debates? How do we reconcile painful truths from the past, reclaim erased histories, and address questions of representation and belonging? Coursework explores how law, policy and collective identity inform such questions.
Issues related to immigration law are placed in context by reviewing their historical evolution. Students examine current law and issues related to family and labor-based petitions for permanent residence, political asylum and refugee applications, the status of undocumented workers, immigration and national security, and deportation policies and procedures.
Freedom of expression is constitutionally protected and often extolled as the cornerstone of U.S. democracy. But what is the relationship between freedom and expression? Coursework examines the legal, political, historical, and sociocultural landscape of censorship in global comparison. Topics include defamation, seditious speech, hate speech, obscenity, campaign finance, book bans, de-platforming, and the influence of technology on free speech.
A combination lecture and practicum course, that connects classroom learning to real-world application of law with community impact. Coursework combines legal training and classroom simulation with supervised fieldwork (i.e., legal analysis, documentation, client counseling). By working directly with clients to secure critical benefits and outcomes, students translate legal theory and ethics into practice and gain hands-on experience with legal problem-solving and advocacy.
This course examines the role of migration in shaping Italian identities from 19th century to present day, focusing on narratives traditionally excluded from, but relevant to, legal and judicial processes. Students explore legal, historical, and theoretical texts while engaging in fieldwork to conduct qualitative interviews, employing legal storytelling techniques to recover narratives and reframe questions of justice around human experiences.
Advanced study of a particular area of Law and Justice Studies. Topics vary each semester. PREREQ: LEG1510 Or LEG1520 Or LEG2015
A course that compares approaches to constitutional structure, design, and interpretation internationally. Students compare constitutional rights related to a range of issues in cross-cultural perspective, including freedom of speech and expression, religious practices, gender and sexuality, citizenship, race and ethnic identity, human and non-human rights, socioeconomic rights, and due process of law.
Source: SUNY at Purchase College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
