Undergraduate Legal Studies Program RenovationCULJP Annual Meeting, June 1, 2011 Presented by Michael

Musheno

Program Biography• Major in the College of Letters & Science• Liberal Arts Curriculum Focused on Law, Legality, Legal

Institutions• Initial Classes Offered in1977 as Ph.D. (JSP) Counterpart • Home in the Law School

Faculty & Governance of Legal Studies

• Governance: Associate Dean of Jurisprudence & Social Policy, Program Director

• Faculty: Core JSP Faculty with Broad J.D. Involvement• Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs)

GSIs by Home Department, Spring 2007 – Spring 2010

Average Percentage of GSI Appointees

JSP Non-JSP

76.6 % 23.4 %

Non-JSP GSIs

Law (J.D.) Law (J.S.D.) Non-Law (Ph.D.)

61.4% 12.5 % 26.1 %

Historical Legal Studies B.A. Major Requirements

University General Requirements and College of Letters and Science Requirements

• Legal Studies Prerequisites, with a requirement of 2 of the 4 areas completed before declaring major. 1. Statistics2. Economics3. Philosophy4. European History

• Required: 2.0 UCB GPA, 2.0 Prerequisites GPA and 2.0 GPA in any Legal Studies Courses Taken

• Legal Studies Requirements, 32 unit requirement1. Four Areas (at least 1 course completed in each Area required)

1. Theory2. Historical/Comparative3. Substantive4. Administration of Justice

Legal Studies Course Offerings & Enrollment Figures: Fall 2007 – Spring 2010

Legal Studies Non-Seminar Courses 52 (70.3%)

Legal Studies Seminar Courses 22 (29.7%)

Total Enrollment in Legal Studies Courses 4,711

Mean Enrollment in Legal Studies Non-Seminar Courses

80.1

Mean Enrollment in Legal Studies Seminar Courses 24.9

Mean Number of Courses Offered per Semester 13

Mean Number of Non-Seminar Courses Offered 9

Mean Number of Seminar Courses Offered 4

Majors in Legal Studies• Mean Annual Graduates (1999-2010): 166 / Mean Annual Graduates (1979-1999): 56

• Graduates to Date: 2,950 / Mean Annual Declared Majors (1999-2009): 271

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Mean Number of Annual Gradu-ates by Department:1998 - 2008

Category Majors

Humanities English, History, Philosophy, Rhetoric

Social SciencesAnthropology, Economics, Political Science,

Sociology

Sciences Chemistry, Computer Science, Physics

Demographics of Legal Studies Graduates:1993-2010

Ethnicity Percentage of Graduates1

African-American / Black 8.2 %

American Indian / Alaska Native 1.2 %

Asian-American / Pacific Islander 42.3 %

Hispanic 12.9 %

White / Caucasian 26.38%

1 Data from UC Berkeley, Cal Profiles (https://secure.vcbf.berkeley.edu/calprofiles), percentages add only to 90.98% because of non-reported International students and the Decline to State, No Ethnic Data, Other, and Unknown categories.

Student Type

Percentage of Total Graduates

Freshman Entry 71.4 %

Transfer 28.6 %

Student Gender

Percentage of Total Graduates

Female 51.9 %

Male 48.1 %

Legal Studies Student Post-Degree Activities: Class of 2010

Activities of Legal Studies Graduates upon Graduation, Class of 20081

Post-Graduate Activities

EmployedAttending

Graduate School

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Other Endeavors

43% 21% 15% 21%

Employment Sectors

For Profit Non-Profit Education Government

74% 9% 11% 6%

Type of Graduate School Program

Law School Master’s & Ph.D. Programs

80% 20%

1 Data from UC Berkeley, Career Center (https://career.berkeley.edu/Major2008/LegalStud.stm), Response Rate of Class of 2008 48% (73 of 152).

Research & Civic EngagementProgram Description Website

URAP (Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program)

Working on cutting-edge research with Berkeley professors

research.berkeley.edu/urap/

Teach in PrisonDeCal course where students teach various topics to inmates in San Quentin

www.decal.org/courses/1450

Justice Corps Students assist the overburdened justice system www.courtinfo.ca.gov/programs/justicecorps

RLA (Renter’s Legal Assistance) Student-run rental advice given to the local community www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~asucrla

SLC (Student Legal Clinic)Students provide assistance to clients from the community in search of legal aid

studentlegalclinic.berkeley.edu/

Death Penalty ClinicA select few students assistance to the Law students and legal professionals at the clinic with re-examining death penalty cases

www.law.berkeley.edu/6105.htm

UCDCThe UC Berkeley Washington Program integrating students into national political campaigns and providing them insight into national policy making.

ucdc.berkeley.edu

Cal in the Capital Summer internships in Washington, D.C. calcorps.berkeley.edu/internship/cal-capital

Capital Fellows ProgramJesse M. Unruh Assembly Fellowship; Executive Fellowship; Judicial Administrative Fellowship; California Senate Fellows

SAO (Student Advocate’s Office)Students hired as caseworkers to work on conduct violations, university grievances, financial aid, and academic disputes.

advocate.berkeley.edu

CLG (Cal in Local Government)

Connects students and community organizations through project-based internships in local government agencies in Berkeley, Oakland and other East Bay locations.

publicservice.berkeley.edu/internship/cal-local-government

Curricular Concerns At Outset of Renovation Process

No Intensive Reading and Composition Courses

No Introductory Course for the Major

Distribution Requirement Areas Are Outdated: Theory, History/Comparative, Substantive, Administration of Justice

Capstone Offerings Not As Robust As Student Interests

Pedagogy: Intellectual Foundations

• Examine law as a major social institution • Engage in interdisciplinary inquiry

spanning social sciences and humanities• Develop critical thinking and writing skills

of liberal arts education • Instill capacities to search, understand and

interpret logics of jurisprudential, social sciences and humanities research

• Understand normative and empirical theories about law and legal institutions related to order, change and inequality

• Explore connections between law and other social institutions

• Promote engagement with social policy

Curricular Innovations in Place for 2011-12 Academic YearDevelopment of a Reading/Composition

Courses

Development of a Gateway/Foundational Course

Enhancement of Honors Program

Senior Seminars in Faculty Research Areas

Summer School Program Expansion

Permanent Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

Gateway Course and Basic Knowledge about Law and Legal Institutions

• Understand core theories about the relationship between law and society.

• Be introduced to core features of the American legal system.

• Understand basic legal terminology, legal concepts, legal actors, and modes of legal reasoning.

• Become acquainted with legal systems other than our own, including how they compare to the American legal system.

• Develop insights into how law has evolved through time, including the temporal and geographical transformation of legal processes and systems from community to nation-state to global.

Core Legal Studies Courses

Theories of Law and Society

Theories of Justice

Comparative Perspectives on Norms/Legal Traditions

Law, Politics and Society

Sociology of Law

Survey of American Legal and Constitutional History

Punishment, Culture and Society

Law and Economics

Proposed Areas or Neighborhoods for Distribution Requirements (Breadth: 3/5; Depth: 3 Deep in One)

• Crime, Law and Social Control• Law and Markets• Law and Sovereignty• Law, Rights, and Social Change• Law and Culture

Legal Studies

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Crime, Law & Social Control

Law & Sovereign

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Law & Culture

Law, Rights & Social Change

Law & Markets

An Example Legal Studies Neighborhood: Law & Sovereignty

Law & Sovereignty

• Course Examples:• Theories of Justice (LS107)• Philosophy and Law in Ancient Athens (LS119)• Comparative Perspectives on Norms and Legal Traditions (LS139)• International Relations and International Law (LS157)• European Legal History (LS171)• Comparative Constitutional Law (LS179)

An Example Legal Studies Neighborhood: Crime, Law & Social Control

Crime, Law & Social Control

• Course Examples:• Policing & Society (LS 102)• Theoretical Foundations of Criminal Law (LS 105)• Law and Economics (LS 145)• Punishment, Culture and Society (LS 160)• Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice (LS 163)

An Example Legal Studies Neighborhood: Law & Markets

Law & Markets

• Course Examples:• Theories of Justice (LS107)• Property & Liberty (LS 140)• Property, Privacy and Personhood (LS 141)• Comparative Private Law (LS 144)• Law & Economics I (LS 145)• Law & Economics II (LS 147)

An Example Legal Studies Neighborhood: Law, Rights & Social Change

Law, Rights & Social Change

• Course Examples:• Immigration and Citizenship (LS 132AC)• The Supreme Court & Public Policy (LS 138)• International Human Rights (LS 154)• Sociology of Law (LS 194)• Gender, Law & Society (LS 186)• Feminist Jurisprudence (LS 189)

An Example Legal Studies Neighborhood: Law & Culture

Law & Culture

• Course Examples:• Legal Discourse (LS 116)• Philosophy and Law in Ancient Athens (LS 119)• Law, Self & Society (LS 151)• Government and the Family (LS 155)• Law in Chinese Society (LS 161)• Psychology and the Law (LS 181)

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