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11.166 Law, Social Movements, and Public Policy: Comparative and International Experience (MIT)

MIT OpenCourseWare: New Courses 2013-05-14

Summary:

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. Finally, it introduces the theories of public policy, social movements, law and society, and transnational studies. Email this Article Add to Facebook Add to Twitter Add to digg Add to Google

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Authors:

Rajagopal, Balakrishnan

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Date tagged:

05/14/2013, 00:00

Date published:

05/13/2013, 06:34