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

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States11.166
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2012English
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This course studies the interaction between law, courts, and social movements in shaping domestic and global public policy. Examines how groups mobilize to use law to affect change and why they succeed and fail. The class uses case studies to explore the interplay between law, social movements, and public policy in current areas such as gender, race, labor, trade, environment, and human rights.

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