LWS 370 Legal Disruption Project
3 hours
The Legal Disruption Project (LDP) in the Law & Society (LWS) major at John Jay is a Participatory Action Research lab in which student researchers collect and analyze data about student experiences and interpretations as they relate to justice, law, and society. The core mission of the project is to challenge traditional academic research by having students collaborate with faculty to examine the issues of everyday New Yorkers whose lives are constantly shaped through sociolegal processes. Students will read historically attuned, sociolegal scholarship, become focus group facilitators, and their research will be written up in a comprehensive memo at the end of each semester. The memo elaborates the methods, background literature and the qualitative data analysis of the focus group discussions to identify how urban processes of policing, housing, resource allocation, racialization, and grassroots political mobilization are transforming city life.
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Note: This course is repeatable one time for a total of 6 credits.