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AP/SOSC 4360 6.00 Honours Seminar: Social Movements And Legal Mobilization

AP/SOSC 4360 6.00 Honours Seminar: Social Movements And Legal Mobilization

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AP/SOSC 4360 6.00

Honours Seminar: Social Movements And Legal Mobilization

Does law matter? Do court decisions make a difference? Does legal change lead to social change? This course explores these questions through a consideration of social movements and litigation, mainly in Canada and the U.S. The course will consider how social movements have used courts to achieve their goals and the effects of these efforts for social and policy change. We will think through these questions by considering a range of empirical cases of social movements in action including the paradigmatic U.S. civil rights movement, the women's movement, and others. You will have the chance to study a particular case or a particular theoretical approach through your research paper.

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