LEAP 1110 - Law and Communities

This class focuses on the development and functioning of communities, those included and excluded from the communities, the relationship with and obligation to community, the practice of law within the community, and the support or challenge given by legal authority within the community. We will read three memoirs/biographies of American lawyers that offer a variety of racial, ethnic, class and gender perspectives on communities and the law. We will also read articles about Asian Americans and play an elaborate role-playing game about the Cherokee nation.