Law and Society (206-0-20)

Instructors

Jesse Yeh
620 Lincoln Street
Jesse Yeh (he /they) I am an Assistant Professor of Instruction at the Center for Legal Studies. I am a political sociologist with a focus on race and immigration, law and crime, gender and sexuality, and movements and politics. My current book project Crime Is Other People: Punitive Consciousness and the Racial Politics of Law-and-Order explores how liberal and conservative activists make sense of law-and-order politics. I teach courses on research methods, immigration, and race, law, and politics.

Meeting Info

Annenberg Hall G21: Tues, Thurs 9:30AM - 10:50AM

Overview of class

Law is everywhere. Law permits, prohibits, enables, legitimates, protects, and prosecutes. Law shapes our day-to-day lives in countless ways. This course examines the connections and relationships of law and society using an interdisciplinary social science approach. As one of the founders of the Law and Society movement observed, "law is too important to leave to lawyers." Accordingly, this course will borrow from several theoretical, disciplinary, and interdisciplinary perspectives (such as sociology, history, anthropology, political science, and critical studies) in order to explore the sociology of law and law's role primarily in the American context.

The thematic topics to be discussed include law and social control; law's role in social change; and law's capacity to reach into complex social relations and intervene in existing normative institutions and organizational structures.

Cross-listed with Legal Studies 206-0.

Class Attributes

Social and Behavioral Science Foundational Discipl
U.S. Perspectives on Power, Justice, and Equity

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: Pre-registration is reserved for Sociolgy and Business Institute Majors and Minors until the end of preregistration, after which time enrollment will be open to everyone who has taken the prerequisites. Anti-Req: Student may not receive credit for both Legal_St 206 and Sociol 206.

Associated Classes

DIS - University Hall 118: Thurs 1:00PM - 1:50PM

DIS - Kresge Centennial Hall 2-319: Thurs 2:00PM - 2:50PM

DIS - 555 Clark 230: Thurs 3:00PM - 3:50PM

DIS - Parkes Hall 213: Fri 1:00PM - 1:50PM

DIS - University Hall 112: Fri 2:00PM - 2:50PM

DIS - University Hall 418: Fri 3:00PM - 3:50PM

DIS - Parkes Hall 213: Thurs 1:00PM - 1:50PM

DIS - University Library 3670: Fri 2:00PM - 3:50PM