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The Legal Studies Minor explores how law shapes our lives and how people, institutions, and society shape the law. Through an interdisciplinary approach, students examine how laws develop, how the legal system works, and how law influences individuals, communities, organizations, and society.

Students explore compelling questions such as: How does law affect our everyday lives? How do social institutions and changing values shape the law? How can law create opportunities, protect rights, address problems, or limit our choices? Courses encourage students to examine legal issues from multiple perspectives while developing skills in critical thinking, analysis, communication, and problem-solving.

The minor combines the academic study of law with opportunities to explore law in practice. Foundational courses introduce students to legal institutions, ideas, and professions, while electives allow students to connect legal studies to their own academic and career interests. A capstone course brings these experiences together, giving students an opportunity to apply what they have learned to significant legal and societal questions.

The Legal Studies Minor is designed to create a community of students and faculty interested in law and legal issues. Students can connect with faculty and one another through shared courses, mentored research, internships, campus speakers, extracurricular activities, and other experiences beyond the classroom.

Upcoming Winter and Spring 2027 Courses
Winter 2027
  • POL 3300 Law & Film
Spring 2027
  • AAD 3300 Legal Aspects of Art/Entertainment
  • ACC 4820 Advanced Accounting and UCC Law
  • BUS 2210 Legal & Ethical Environment of Business
  • COM 4000 Media Law & Ethics
  • POL 2100 Intro to the Study of Law
  • POL 3240 Civil Liberties
  • POL 3430 International Law
  • PSY 3810 Psychology & Law
  • SPT 3050 Sport Law