Bachelor of Arts [B.A] [Legal Studies] From Northwestern University

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 adjunct majors, 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, philosophy, economics, African-American studies, literature, gender studies, psychology, Latin studies, religious studies, 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.