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. 

ANTH 110C
/LGST 112
California Pasts

5

ANTH 130CPolitics and Culture in China

5

ANTH 148
/FMST 148
Gender and Global Development

5

ANTH 187Cultural Heritage in Colonial Contexts

5

ANTH 187BCultural Resource Management

5

ENVS 140
/LGST 140E
National Environmental Policy

5

ENVS 152
/POLI 170
International Environmental Politics

5

ENVS 179Environmental Interpretation

5

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

5

HIS 110BRevolutionary America, 1740-1815

5

HIS 110DThe Civil War Era

5

HIS 121BAfrican American History: 1877 to the Present

5

LALS 194XExtractivism and Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Americas

5

LGST 108Gender, Sexuality, and Law

5

LGST 109Legal Theory

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

LGST 115Law and the Holocaust

5

LGST 116
/POLI 116
Comparative Law

5

LGST 117Sports, Law, and Politics

5

LGST 118Law and Literature

5

LGST 125History of the U.S. Penal Culture

5

LGST 130Inequality and Law

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

LGST 146Philosophy of Law

5

LGST 150Children and the Law

5

LGST 152Courts and Litigation

5

LGST 153Immigration, Citizenship, and Law

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

LGST 161Intellectual Property

5

LGST 173
/POLI 173
Disability, Law, & Politics

5

LGST 185Legal 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 168AThe Culture of Islamic Law

5

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

3

PHIL 140History of Ethics

5

PHIL 153Philosophy of Race

5

POLI 102Doing Research

5

POLI 103Feminist 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 114Human Development as a Cultural Process

5

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

5

PSYC 153The Psychology of Poverty and Social Class

5

SOCY 185Environmental Inequality

5

LGST 124Government 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
Environmental Assessment

5

ENVS 152
/POLI 170
International Environmental Politics

5

ENVS 165
/LGST 165A
Sustainable Water Systems

5

POLI 165Global Organization

5

ENVS 130B
/LGST 130B
Justice and Sustainability in Agriculture

5

SOCY 117EMigrant Europe

5

LIT 168BIslamic Law and Society

5

PHIL 143Applied Ethics: Ethics Bowl

5