Legal Studies

The Internship Workforce course provides students with an overview of working in the United Kingdom. The course looks at the changing organizational structures of work in Britain. It examines the social and economic changes that affect the workplace in the UK. Topics covered include: sociology of work, trade unions, oppression at work, generational changes at work, and the future of work. An internship while studying in London provides an opportunity to experience a “hands on” working situation and a different perspective on the workplace and working practices, while developing professional skills.

This course offers a study of human rights including their origin, the primary international institutions, and limits to the current system of protections.

This is an introductory course on international law. Various issues on international law are discussed from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Laws have deeply affected the lives of minority groups in the U.S., and have been a source of both empowerment and deprivation. This course examines some of the U.S. laws and legal issues surrounding minorities, with attention to historical, political and social contexts, focusing on African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, women, and LGBTQis.

This course provides a basic overview of Israel's legal system, its core principles, and its central institutions. The course focuses on the development of Israel's law since the founding of the state; important issues, including politics, affecting Israeli law; and the Israeli approach to specific and focused fields of law. The course aims to introduce the fundamentals of Israel's legal system, important developments and key jurists since the founding of the state, and discuss specific areas of law in Israel.

This course explores freedom of expression as a fundamental right in democracies. It first introduces different philosophical foundations of free speech, before comparing the American free speech tradition with other Western traditions, including Germany and the United Kingdom. It also examines the legal limits of free speech and other less direct forms of speech restriction and looks at the regulations of free speech in work settings and universities. The course draws extensively upon Anglo-American scholarship and utilizes legal texts and examples from various Western countries.

Various cross-border commercial disputes are frequently resolved by arbitration in London. London is home to a wide range of arbitral institutions, and it boasts a wealth of talented arbitration professionals. This course concerns the contractual and procedural elements of international commercial arbitration both from comparative and practical perspectives, focusing particularly on the English Arbitration Act 1996, the UNCITRAL Model Law, and the New York Convention. Arbitration agreements frequently refer to a specified set of arbitration rules to govern the arbitral procedure.

This course examines dominant perceptions of law in Malay society by focusing on ideas on adat law and Islamization of laws. It analyzes socio‐historical factors conditioning perspectives and the function of ideas in relation to social groups that espouse them. The extent to which the mode of thinking on adat law is reflected in discourse on Islamizing laws and its impact on legal development will be addressed. Concepts of ideology and Orientalism, Islam and adat law, Ideas on Islamization of laws and Shariah and the state are some major themes tackled.