Legal Studies Mission Statement
The mission of our Legal Studies programming is to demystify the force of law by examining what law is and how it operates in relation to political, social, economic, and cultural structures.We offer a unique interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary program that combines expertise in legal theory and jurisprudence with leading scholarship from the fields of sociology, criminology, socio-legal studies, political science, philosophy, and other disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. Our programming considers the way that law and legal institutions structure, and are structured by, systems of exclusion and marginalization related to race, class, gender, and Indigeneity, amongst other lines of inequality. Legal Studies fosters critical thinking, a drive for research and enquiry, and a commitment to civic engagement and social change.