Students in the legal studies minor are not required to follow major requirements such as taking courses in each thematic area, the philosophy (ethics) requirement, or a senior seminar course.
One lower-division course.
Any five upper-division electives may be used to complete the minor.
The following courses are offered by the Legal Studies (LGST) Program, are crosslisted with LGST by another department, or are offered by another department. Enrollment in LGST or the course code listed will count toward the legal studies major requirements.
| ANTH 110C
/LGST 112
| California Pasts | 5 |
| ANTH 130C | Politics and Culture in China | 5 |
| ANTH 148
/FMST 148
| Gender and Global Development | 5 |
| ANTH 187 | Cultural Heritage in Colonial Contexts | 5 |
| ANTH 187B | Cultural Resource Management | 5 |
| ENVS 140
/LGST 140E
/LGST 10 | National Environmental Policy | 5 |
| ENVS 152
/POLI 170
| International Environmental Politics | 5 |
| ENVS 179 | Environmental Interpretation | 5 |
| FMST 194O
/CRES 190O
| The Politics of Gender and Human Rights | 5 |
| HIS 110B | Revolutionary America, 1740-1815 | 5 |
| HIS 110D | The Civil War Era | 5 |
| HIS 121B | African American History: 1877 to the Present | 5 |
| LALS 194X | Extractivism and Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Americas | 5 |
| LGST 108 | Gender, Sexuality, and Law | 5 |
| LGST 109 | Legal Theory | 5 |
| LGST 111B
/POLI 111B
| Civil Liberties | 5 |
| LGST 111C | Issues in Constitutional Law | 5 |
| LGST 113 | Gay Rights and the Law | 5 |
| LGST 114 | Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the American Legal System | 5 |
| LGST 115 | Law and the Holocaust | 5 |
| LGST 116
/POLI 116
| Comparative Law | 5 |
| LGST 117 | Sports, Law, and Politics | 5 |
| LGST 118 | Law and Literature | 5 |
| LGST 125 | History of the U.S. Penal Culture | 5 |
| LGST 130 | Inequality and Law | 5 |
| LGST 131 | Wildlife, Wilderness, and the Law | 5 |
| LGST 133
/POLI 133
| Law of Democracy | 5 |
| LGST 135 | Native Peoples Law | 5 |
| LGST 136 | Federal Indian Law and International Comparative Indigenous Peoples' Law | 5 |
| LGST 137 | International Environmental Law and Policy | 5 |
| LGST 139 | War Crimes | 5 |
| LGST 146 | Philosophy of Law | 5 |
| LGST 150 | Children and the Law | 5 |
| LGST 152 | Courts and Litigation | 5 |
| LGST 153 | Immigration, Citizenship, and Law | 5 |
| LGST 154 | The Legal Profession | 5 |
| LGST 155 | Topics in American Legal History: Making of American Constitutionalism | 5 |
| LGST 156 | Administrative Law and Challenges of Regulation | 5 |
| LGST 157 | Political Jurisprudence | 5 |
| LGST 158
/POLI 158
| Law and Politics of Memory | 5 |
| LGST 159 | Property and the Law | 5 |
| LGST 161 | Intellectual Property | 5 |
| LGST 173
/POLI 173
| Disability, Law, & Politics | 5 |
| LGST 185 | Legal Studies Internship/Field Seminar: Experiences in Law, Policy, and Society | 5 |
| LGST 188A
/OAKS 188A
| Introduction to the Legal Profession and Legal Aid Work | 2 |
| LIT 168A | The Culture of Islamic Law | 5 |
| OAKS 188B
/LGST 188B
| Legal Field Practice: Professional Skills and Ethics | 3 |
| PHIL 140 | History of Ethics | 5 |
| PHIL 153 | Philosophy of Race | 5 |
| POLI 102 | Doing Research | 5 |
| POLI 103 | Feminist Interventions | 5 |
| POLI 160B
/LGST 160B
| International Law | 5 |
| POLI 175
/LGST 175
| Human Rights | 5 |
| POLI 186
/LGST 186
| Global Health Politics | 5 |
| PSYC 114 | Human Development as a Cultural Process | 5 |
| PSYC 140M | Legitimizing (In)Equality: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Social Policy | 5 |
| PSYC 153 | The Psychology of Poverty and Social Class | 5 |
| SOCY 185 | Environmental Inequality | 5 |
| LGST 124 | Government Secrecy | 5 |
| POLI 120A
/LGST 120A
| Congress, President, and the Court in American Politics | 5 |
| ENVS 144
/POLI 179
| Global Climate Change Politics | 5 |
| LGST 148
/ENVS 148
| Cites, Urban Planning, and the Law | 5 |
| ENVS 150
/LGST 150A
| Coastal and Marine Policy | 5 |
| ENVS 151
/LGST 151A
/LGST 10/LGST 111B/POLI 111A | Environmental Assessment | 5 |
| ENVS 152
/POLI 170
| International Environmental Politics | 5 |
| ENVS 165
/LGST 165A
/LGST 10/LGST 111B/POLI 111A | Sustainable Water Systems | 5 |
| POLI 165 | Global Organization | 5 |
| ENVS 130B
/LGST 130B
/LGST 10/LGST 111B/POLI 111A | Justice and Sustainability in Agriculture | 5 |
| SOCY 117E | Migrant Europe | 5 |
| LIT 168B | Islamic Law and Society | 5 |
| PHIL 143 | Applied Ethics: Ethics Bowl | 5 |