Northwestern University Center for Legal Studies

Northwestern University Center for Legal Studies NU LS offers interdiciplinary major & minor degrees for undergraduates at Northwestern as well as academic programming for graduate students.

Law, broadly conceived, is a social institution that both shapes and is shaped by social, political, historical, cultural, and economic change. Law and society scholars thus agree that “law is too important to be left to the lawyers,” and seek to understand the law through historical, cultural, and empirical approaches. The Legal Studies program is not a pre-law program; instead, students receive

interdisciplinary training that emphasizes the reciprocal relationships between law and society key to understanding the social environment. Legal Studies majors and minors study legal actors, legal processes, and legal institutions through the perspectives and methods of a variety of disciplines – including history, sociology, political science, economics, African-American studies, literature, gender studies, psychology, Latin@ studies, religion, philosophy, and Asian-American Studies. At the same time, students use the conceptual framework of the law to illuminate empirical and theoretical concerns in these fields. Graduates of our program are well trained to become active and thoughtful citizens engaged with local and global questions of power and justice and with the role of law in everyday life. Our graduates are ideally situated to succeed in careers in law, policy, education, politics, and in graduate work in the social sciences and humanities.

01/13/2025
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10/18/2021

We're hiring!

Northwestern University’s Center for Legal Studies invites applications for a full-time, benefits-eligible, faculty appointment as Assistant or Associate Professor of Instruction, beginning September 1, 2022. This is a teaching-track position that offers good prospects of job security and promotio...

Legal Studies Major Applications are now OPEN!If interested in applying to the major, please complete the online applica...
01/26/2021

Legal Studies Major Applications are now OPEN!
If interested in applying to the major, please complete the online application form by Monday, February 15, 2021.
https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/0cfe0266acc846bb9b1d1e4aa0d48006
If you’ve taken, or are currently enrolled in, “Law & Society” (206), you may apply. Our applications are only open once a year, so don’t delay!

11/11/2020
10/30/2020

Alexandra Wilson is working to change England’s legal establishment, and perceptions about who belongs in it, from the inside.

10/29/2020

The faculty and staff of the Center for Legal Studies at Northwestern University stand in solidarity with our colleagues in the Department of African American Studies and echoes their call for a prompt and meaningful official response to the concerns expressed in their Oct. 15 and Oct. 20 letters. S...

09/23/2020

Police shot and killed Breonna Taylor, a Black woman, in Louisville, Kentucky. Her slaying has led to widespread outrage — but no officer was charged in her killing.

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