Welcome to the
Socio-Legal Studies Program
Explore how our laws impact our everyday lives.
Explore how our laws impact our everyday lives.
Take classes from participating departments: environmental science, media, film and journalism studies, philosophy, political science, and sociology and criminology. How do different disciplines view our legal system?
Complement your studies with an internship, volunteer opportunity, field trip, or other active learning experience. What are the effects of our laws in the real world?
Law has long been one way of ordering and understanding the world. Students who major or minor in Socio-Legal Studies—an interdisciplinary program within the Division of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences—focus on fascinating questions that strike at the heart of modern society:
Students in the interdisciplinary Socio-Legal Studies program can choose from a variety of classes offered by DU's sociology, political science, philosophy, environmental science, and media, film, and journalism studies departments. In Fall, 2019, a Socio-Legal Studies course for undergraduates will be offered by the law school.
See information for majors, information for minors, a list of our upcoming classes and learn about the faculty from various departments who contribute to the Socio-Legal Studies program.