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A major in Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought consists of a minimum of nine courses, for students in the class 2022 . For students in the classes of 2023, 2024 and 2025 the minimum requirement is ten courses.
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Sep 5, 2024 · The Amherst Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought (LJST) department takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study, contextualization, and theorizing of law. Our courses treat law as a historically evolving and culturally specific enterprise in which moral argument, interpretive practices, and force are brought to bear on the organization of ...
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Upon completion of the LJST major, we expect our graduates to have attained a nuanced understanding of law as a subject of liberal inquiry, attending to the ways law combines moral argument, interpretive practice and force in regulating social life; to have learned the history and development of legal orders in the United States, while also coming ...
A major in Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought consists of a minimum of eleven courses. Offerings in the Department include courses in Legal Theory (these courses emphasize the moral and philosophical dimensions that inform legal life and link the study of law with the history of social and political thought), Interpretive Practices (these course...
The Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought department takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study, contextualization and theorizing of law. Students wishing to major in LJST must complete LJST 110 (Legal Theory) by the end of their sophomore year and before declaring their major. LJST is not a pre-law program: students wishing to apply to law ...
The Department awards Honors to seniors who have achieved distinction in their course work, whose independent projects are judged to be of honors quality, and who have a college-wide grade average of A- or above. Students with a college-wide grade point below an A- may petition to write an Honors Thesis. Students should begin to identify a suitable...
LJST is not a pre-law program designed to serve the needs of those contemplating careers in law. While medical schools have prescribed requirements for admission, there is no parallel in the world of legal education. Law schools generally advise students to obtain a broad liberal arts education; they are as receptive to students who major in physic...
Students may receive credit toward a major in LJST for up to two “related” courses from outside the Department (see list below) or for approved study abroad courses. In no case may those courses be used to satisfy the Analytic or Research Seminar requirements. COLQ-234: America's Death Penalty HIST-488: Riot and Rebellion in Colonial and Post-Colon...
By a vote of its general Faculty in November 1992 Amherst College established the Department of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought (LJST) as its 29th academic department offering an autonomous undergraduate major.
At Ohio University, we offer six pre-law majors in Business, Geography, History, Political Science, Philosophy, and Sociology. Additionally, OHIO offers a competitive certificate in Law, Justice & Culture that many students interested in law school pursue.
The Department offers courses that treat law as a historically evolving and culturally specific enterprise in which moral argument, distinctive interpretive practices, and force are brought to bear on the organization of social life.
Maintaining a strong academic record while at Amherst is important when preparing to apply for law school. What does that mean exactly? Earning impressive grades in rigorous and challenging courses will make you competitive for law school.
