LAWG 538 - LAW - Winter 2027

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Hiring Unit: Faculty of Law

Course Number: LAWG 538

Course Title: Specialized Topics in Law 19: State Accountability and Social Change

Course Credits: 3

1 Instructor

Term: Winter 2027

Course Schedule: Monday 1005-1255 (Student Affairs Office will contact you if there is a change to the date/time)

Location: Chancellor Day Hall

Course Description:

Legal education often reduces social justice to critical thinking and self-reflexivity and fails to also identify the skillset that an effective social justice practice requires. This course is designed to address this absence, within the specific social justice context of state accountability. Using case studies organized around various forms of political violence, we will expose the ways in which the state has (and hasn’t) been brought to account and forced to change through legal action. In addition to practical training, this course will consider theoretical questions which loom large. How is a state accountability practice situated within the larger frame of social justice lawyering? Can law ever be practiced in a way that is truly radical, rebellious or progressive?

TQR: At a minimum, a first degree in law. Several years of significant practice or professional experience, in the relevant area; Experience in teaching undergraduate law students in a bilingual setting

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2026-10-15

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