Courses within this field cover a wide range of topics in addition to law and public policy, including constitutional law and politics, judicial politics, international law, human rights, comparative legal studies, legal theory, and law and society from a global perspective.

Field Coordinator: Howard Gillman
(Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles)
Constitutional law, the U.S. Supreme Court, judicial politics, and legal theory

Core Faculty Include:

John Barnes
(J.D. University of Chicago, Ph.D. University of California Berkeley)
Congress, health policy, courts

Alison Dundes Renteln
(Ph. D. University of California, Berkeley, J.D. USC Gould School of Law)
International law and human rights, comparative law, constitutional law, and political and legal theory

Jefferey Sellers
(Ph.D. Yale University, J.D. Yale Law School)
Comparative politics, European politics, urban and regional political economy, and institutions and multilevel governance

Courses:

Law and Public Policy
Seminar in Supreme Court Politics
Seminar in Public Law
Seminar in American Constitutional Development
Seminar in American Constitutional Law and Theory
Seminar in Comparative Judicial Policies, Processes and Behavior
Seminar in International Law