LLS201 | Law and Social Transformation

Building on previous core courses such as Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, and Law and Social Sciences, this course addresses key questions related to the relationship between law and social transformation. For instance, how does law shape social, economic and political relations? How do social movements shape the law? Is the law an appropriate tool for social change? Why has the Rule of Law become central to contemporary political and legal discourse at a time where are witness to rapid political, social, cultural and technological change? This course will address tensions between different imaginations of law as an instrument for social transformation, as a site of contestation and as a means of limiting power and authority. Utilizing a law-in-context method this course will draw upon historical, comparative and contemporary socio-legal material drawing on both primary and secondary texts.