LAW PUBLIC POLICY AND SOCIAL CHANGE (2) (UCI 400)

Professor Dennis D. Parker

Law, Public Policy and Social Change will challenge students to consider the various roles that lawyers play in movements for social change and the political nature of litigation, judicial decisions, and social change. Students will explore the efficacy of the law as an instrument for social change by studying past and present examples of lawyers working to advance public policy, including the work conducted by lawyers to end legal segregation of the public schools, to try to establish economic rights for poor people, and organize the growing movement to reform education and public safety policies that contribute to the school to prison pipeline.