Legal Studies Minor

Course Requirements

The legal studies minor comprises six courses: LGST 10 plus any five upper-division LGST courses.

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. 

Lower-Division Courses

One lower-division course.

LGST 10Introduction to Legal Process

5

Upper-Division Courses

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. 

POLI 102Doing Research

5

POLI 103Feminist Interventions

5

LGST 108Gender, Sexuality, and Law

5

LGST 109Legal Theory

5

HIS 110BRevolutionary America, 1740-1815

5

HIS 110DThe Civil War Era

5

ANTH 110C
/LGST 112
California Pasts

5

LGST 111B
/POLI 111B
Civil Liberties

5

LGST 111CIssues in Constitutional Law

5

LGST 113Gay Rights and the Law

5

LGST 114Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the American Legal System

5

PSYC 114Human Development as a Cultural Process

5

LGST 115Law and the Holocaust

5

LGST 116
/POLI 116
Comparative Law

5

LGST 117Sports, Law, and Politics

5

LGST 118Law and Literature

5

HIS 121BAfrican American History: 1877 to the Present

5

LGST 125History of the U.S. Penal Culture

5

LGST 130Inequality and Law

5

ANTH 130CPolitics and Culture in China

5

LGST 131Wildlife, Wilderness, and the Law

5

LGST 133
/POLI 133
Law of Democracy

5

LGST 135Native Peoples Law

5

LGST 136Federal Indian Law and International Comparative Indigenous Peoples' Law

5

LGST 137International Environmental Law and Policy

5

LGST 139War Crimes

5

ENVS 140National Environmental Policy

5

PHIL 140History of Ethics

5

PSYC 140MLegitimizing (In)Equality: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Social Policy

5

LGST 146
/PHIL 146
Philosophy of Law

5

ANTH 148
/FMST 148
Gender and Global Development

5

LGST 150Children and the Law

5

ENVS 152
/POLI 170
International Environmental Politics

5

LGST 152Courts and Litigation

5

LGST 153Immigration, Citizenship, and Law

5

PHIL 153Philosophy of Race

5

PSYC 153The Psychology of Poverty and Social Class

5

LGST 154The Legal Profession

5

LGST 155Topics in American Legal History: Making of American Constitutionalism

5

LGST 156Administrative Law and Challenges of Regulation

5

LGST 157Political Jurisprudence

5

LGST 158
/POLI 158
Law and Politics of Memory

5

LGST 159Property and the Law

5

POLI 160B
/LGST 160B
International Law

5

LGST 161Intellectual Property

5

LIT 168AThe Culture of Islamic Law

5

LGST 173
/POLI 173
Disability, Law, & Politics

5

POLI 175
/LGST 175
Human Rights

5

ENVS 179Environmental Interpretation

5

LGST 185Legal Studies Internship/Field Seminar: Experiences in Law, Policy, and Society

5

SOCY 185Environmental Inequality

5

POLI 186
/LGST 186
Global Health Politics

5

ANTH 187Cultural Heritage in Colonial Contexts

5

ANTH 187BCultural Resource Management

5

LGST 188A
/OAKS 188A
Introduction to the Legal Profession and Legal Aid Work

2

OAKS 188B
/LGST 188B
Legal Field Practice: Professional Skills and Ethics

3

FMST 194O
/CRES 190O
The Politics of Gender and Human Rights

5

LALS 194XExtractivism and Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Americas

5