Law, Social Movements, and Public Policy: Comparative and International Experience

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SES #	TOPICS
Part I: Theoretical Framework
1	Introduction: A General Introduction to the Course, the Main Substantive Themes and the Requirements
2	Social Movements, NGOs and Civil Society: How are They Different?
3	Social Movements and the State: How Do They Interact?
4	Law, Social Movements and Public Policy: Changing Domestic Contexts
5	Law, Social Movements and Public Policy: Changing Global Contexts
Part II: Domestic and Comparative Experience
6	Legal and Social Change in the US: Contesting Perspectives
7	Environment as an Arena of Struggle
8	Law and American Labor Movement
9	Feminism and Women’s Movements
10	Race, Poverty and the Struggle for Social Justice
11	The Conservative Movement, Policy Change and Law
12	Preparation for Field-component on Occupy Wall Street
13	Field Work Report Back
14	Legal and Social Change in India: The Role of Mobilization and Activism
15	Women’s Rights v. Gender Justice
16	Caste and the Struggle with/through Law
17	Contesting Development: Law and Struggle in the Narmada Valley
18	Human Rights, Social Movements and Public Interest Litigation
Part III: Law and Global Public Policy from Below
19	Beyond the State? Changing Contexts for Law-making and Application at the Global Level
20	The World Commission on Dams and the Struggle over Development
21	Setting Global Environmental and Health Policy: The Case of Nuclear Weapons
22	Global Economic Institutions and Resistance from the Margins
23	The World Trade Organization as a Policy Machine
24	Human Rights Law as Global Public Policy
25	Conclusion and Review Class