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Extractions: Introduction. The study of political science has value in several different ways. First, all citizens need to understand the nature of government even if they have no professional interest in political science. Second, a fair amount of knowledge of politics is indispensable for those who hope to play leading roles in any sector of society. Finally, there are some careers for which extensive training in political science is extremely useful. This is true especially for those hoping to seek careers in higher education, the legal profession, state and local government, urban planning, the federal civil service, journalism, lobbying groups, or the proliferating organizations that monitor political processes and policies. Political science will help any student develop reasoning and analytical skills and build competence in oral and written expression. In addition, the Department of Political Science offers opportunities for students to acquire skills in statistical analysis and computer usage. These skills and aptitudes will be useful to students no matter what their ultimate career choices may be. Particularly when it is increasingly common that people change jobs several different times during their lives, the ability to think, read, and write become the indispensable foundation for adapting to change in the world of work.
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Extractions: Moot Court is a two-quarter introduction to legal materials, writing, and methods of research taught by a distinguished member of the legal community. The first quarter concentrates on legal research and writing and in the second quarter, students are assigned by teams to prepare and present arguments in response to a hypothetical legal problem. Enrollment in Moot Court is limited to 15 students. Students interested in pursuing a legal career should consider enrolling in the Moot Court program. Additional resources for students considering a legal career can be found here. For additional information, please contact Aline Messer or Cherrie Veriato , Undergraduate Student Affairs Officers. Most law schools require a baccalaureate degree, but do not require a uniform pre-law course of study or a specific college major. In general, law schools recommend that the pre-law student attempt to reach several goals during the undergraduate years: an understanding of the development of social, political, and economic institutions; an ability to communicate well, both orally and in writing; the capacity to think clearly, carefully, and independently; and a habit of disciplined study. Therefore, there is no specific formal pre-law curriculum that a student must take. For additional information on preparing for law school, choice of major and inter-disciplinary programs, please see UCR's
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Extractions: Department of Political Science Programs Offered Introduction Bachelor of Arts in Political Science ... Political Science Courses Division of Political Science and Criminal Justice Division Chair: Keith O. Boyum Division Office: University Hall 511 Top PROGRAMS OFFERED Bachelor of Arts in Political Science Concentration in Public Administration Minor in International Politics Minor in Political Science Minor in Public Administration Master of Arts in Political Science ... Master of Public Administration Faculty Virginia Bott, Keith Boyum, Michael Brown, Vincent Buck, Bert Buzan, Phillip Gianos, Harvey Grody, Karl Kahrs, Marlyn Madison, Alana Northrop, Paul Peretz, Alan Saltzstein, Choudhury Shamim, Vera Simone, J. Owens Smith, Raphael Sonenshein, Barbara Stone, Sandra Sutphen, Yuan Ting, Bruce Wright, Jon Yinger. Advisers The department emphasizes proper advisement, and all majors are strongly urged to talk with either the undergraduate, the prelaw or the public administration adviser as soon as possible after entering the program. The adviser helps with study plans, and gives information about subsequent career possibilities, including law and other graduate schools, postbaccalaureate fellowships and scholarships, and job possibilities in local government. Top INTRODUCTION Political philosophy, which deals with normative questions about how power should be used and distributed, rights and obligations, the nature of justice and the ideal state.
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Extractions: Legal Resources Biographies Almanac of the Federal Judiciary contains biographical information on currently serving federal judges, including U.S. Supreme Court justices, Circuit Court judges, Federal District Court judges, federal magistrates, and Bankruptcy Court judges. WESTLAW password required. Federal Judges Biographical Database contains the service record and biographical information for all judges who have served on the U.S. District Courts, U.S. Circuit Courts, U.S. Courts of Appeals, and the Supreme Court since 1789. Dictionaries Ballentine's Law Dictionary , 3rd Edition contains over 40,000 definitions of legal terms "based on the actual construction of those terms by courts of last resort, with each case cited to the page on which the definition appears." LEXIS password required.
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Extractions: Degree Programs T he College of General Studies offers ten majors. Each combines basic skills with specific areas of study in order to best prepare graduates for the workforce. Many CGS students have distinct goals in mind when they enroll, and can immediately choose a major. Others are unsure and decide their major after they've taken several courses. As a CGS student, you don't have to decide on a major until you have earned between 45 and 60 credits; that is, until you've completed about half your degree by taking courses in general areas. Develop your understanding of the evolution, theory, structure, functioning, and process of change in the system of American criminal justice. Choose one of these three specialized areas: Adult and Juvenile Corrections, Law Enforcement Practice, or Social Policy Planning and the Legal Process. Courses in the Administration of Justice major are all taught by full-time and adjunct faculty members of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) . Participating faculty members include attorneys, prison administrators, judges, law enforcement officials, and criminal justice researchers. GSPIA also offers a
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Extractions: QuickLink Full Search Directory To say that you are a "prelaw" student means that you are planning to apply to law school after completing your bachelor's degree. Few universities in the United States offer a "prelaw" major because no particular undergraduate major is required for admission to law school. The best academic preparation for law school is to do well in a major that you enjoy. Law schools want to produce attorneys who can serve the entire legal spectrum (in such diverse areas as tax, criminal, entertainment, or immigration law), and this requires a wide range of academic backgrounds. In fact, law schools look less for specific areas of study than they do for evidence of excellence in any academic program. A good record in physics or classics, for instance, is better than a mediocre record in history or political science. UCI students who have gone on to law school most frequently have chosen majors within the Schools of Humanities, Social Sciences, or Social Ecology (which includes a major in Criminology, Law and Society). The majority of law schools, however, give equal preference to students from all academic disciplines. At UCI, take courses that will help you develop your writing and analytical skills (logic, writing, mathematics, and statistics courses, for example). These skills are the key to doing well on the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), succeeding in law school, and being successful in the legal profession.
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Extractions: PROSECUTION AND ADJUDICATION CRIMINAL JUSTICE 592 POLITICAL SCIENCE 542 Dr. David C. Brody Office 220 brody@wsu.edu Office Hours: Monday Wednesday Friday 10:30-11:30 or by appointment The criminal justice system is made up of three primary components: the police, the courts and corrections. As each of these components seriously effects not only the operation of the system as a whole, but the functioning of each independent component as well. This course will involve a detailed examination of the criminal court system. The criminal courts system is made up of individual decision makers carrying out specific functions through discretionary decisions and actions. In this course we will study the functioning of the court system by examining how and why the systems actors make the decisions they make and act the way they do under the confines of the law, ethical responsibilities, working relationships, and political realities and aspirations. Required Texts American Judicature Society (2000). Research on Judicial Selection 1999 Eisenstein, James and Herbert Jacobs (1991).
C. Bruce Littlejohn Papers Wofford College in 1930 to study English and political science. 19431995, containdocuments generated during Littlejohn's political and judicial careers. http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/uscs/1996/little96.htm
Extractions: MODERN POLITICAL COLLECTIONS C Littlejohn resigned from the legislature in the summer of 1943 to enter the U.S. Army, where he primarily served in the quarter master corps. After the Japanese surrender, he was sent to the Philippines to help prosecute Japanese war criminals for the International War Crimes Commission. On his return to South Carolina in 1946, Littlejohn successfully recaptured his seat in the legislature. When incumbent speaker Solomon Blatt announced he would not seek re-election, Littlejohn announced his candidacy for the speakership and won, defeating Thomas H. Pope, Jr., in 1947 by seventeen votes. In addition to his legislative duties, Littlejohn practiced law with the firm of Odom, Bostick, Littlejohn, and Nolen. Littlejohn's transition from the legislature to the circuit court marked the beginning of a productive and challenging judicial career. In his new position, Littlejohn continued to elicit response from colleagues around the state, as he had during his years in the legislature. Solomon Blatt wrote him, 14 July 1952"I miss you in the House. I can now see you standing with the rule book in your hand. We had some lively fights in your day and I believe we did a good job as the result of those friendly controversies....I have heard many fine compliments paid you in the fair and able manner in which you preside as a Judge." Littlejohn's judicial acumen and far-sightedness were manifested in the innovative approaches his court introduced to South Carolina, including adopting the use of the opening statement and the pre-trial conference.
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Extractions: Jeffrey Krivis (moderator) is a full time mediator and arbitrator in Los Angeles specializing in complex employment disputes. He is also an adjunct professor at Pepperdine Law School where he directs the Mediation Clinic and trains attorneys and retired judges in negotiation and mediation skills. In 1993, he was awarded the "Dispute Resolution Lawyer of the Year" Award by a publicly traded corporation. He is an accomplished author, having published numerous professional articles and papers in the field of conflict resolution including the Mediator Classification Index, Responding To The Tactic of No Settlement Authority At Mediation, A Winning Formula For Employment Mediation, How Structure Helps Mediation, Desktop Guide to ADR and Mediating In Cyberspace. Many of his articles can be accessed at
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Extractions: Vol. 9 No. 5 (May 1999) pp. 195-197. CRIMES OF THE CENTURY: FROM LEOPOLD AND LOEB TO O.J. SIMPSON by Gilbert Geis and Leigh B. Bienen. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1998. 230 pp. Reviewed by John Paul Ryan, Director of School Programs, American Bar Association Division for Public Education. (The views expressed are those of the reviewer, not of the American Bar Association). As we approach the end of the 20th century, we are being treated to books and television programs that catalog and describe the centurys greatest presidents, athletes, news stories, and most famous trials. Many of these accounts lack historical perspective, explicit criteria for inclusion in the list, in-depth research, and links to broader themes in American culture. Against this challenging backdrop, Gilbert Geis and Leigh Bienens CRIMES OF THE CENTURY: FROM LEOPOLD AND LOEB TO O.J. SIMPSON is an excellent and distinctive book about a commonplace subject. The core of the book is its focus on five cases: (1) the 1924 murder of a fourteen year old boy by teenagers Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr.; (2) the 1931 Scottsboro cases, where nine teenage black men were charged with and tried (several times) for the rape of two young white women; (3) the 1932 kidnapping and murder of a twenty-month old child, the son of Anne and Charles Lindbergh, for which Bruno Hauptmann was convicted and subsequently executed; (4) the 1949-50 trials of Alger Hiss for perjury before the House Un-American Activities Committee during the height of the Cold War; and (5) the trial of O.J. Simpson for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her acquaintance.
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Extractions: CONTACT US SITE MAP Prospective Students Our Community ... Alumni I came from Seoul, Korea where the greatest World Cup matches in history were held last June. more Law School Our Community The Graduate Legal Studies Program at Indiana UniversityBloomington has a global reputation for its long and distinguished tradition in educating international attorneys and law graduates. The Law School in Bloomington was founded in 1842, and has conferred graduate degrees on international students for the past century. We have since developed one of the most popular graduate studies programs in the United States. The keys to our success include a broad-based, global curriculum, the accessibility of our world-renowned faculty, the success of our graduates, a beautiful, historic campus, and our location in one of the safest and most scenic areas of the Midwestern United States. Our law school is, first and foremost, an intellectual and academic community devoted to the highest standards of legal education and learning. Our graduates hold prominent positions as law professors, judges, government officials, business leaders, and practicing attorneys around the world. Our graduate programs are flexible and challenging, and provide ample opportunity for students to work closely with faculty experts in many domestic and transnational fields. Students may choose a program that fits with their academic goals and the time available for study in the United States.
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Extractions: Home Index College Academics ... Search Humanities and Human Science Home Faculty and Staff Opportunities Undergraduate Special Programs The Criminal Justice major at Point Park College has two interrelated goals. The first is to develop a fundamental comprehension of the criminal justice system and the political and social environment in which it operates. To fulfill this goal, the interdisciplinary major provides insights from history, political science, sociology, behavioral science, public administration, law and natural sciences. Students who continue their studies in graduate programs will find the Criminal Justice major to be an excellent preparation for advanced academic work. A second, but not unrelated goal, is to provide a level of training for both practitioners and entrants to the field of criminal justice that will prepare them for employment and professional advancement in their careers. Numerous courses taught by experienced practitioners offer students many opportunities to enhance their professional skills. Point Park College's location makes it convenient for judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys and police officers to teach in our program. It also facilitates internships and direct observations.
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Extractions: UW School of Law Home What's New Search Contact Us Student Life Admissions Academic Programs Academic Calendar ... Law School Home Considering becoming a lawyer? While you might not think that lawyers spend all their time in the courtroom, many lawyers spend little, if any time in the courtroom during their careers. Indeed, law practice is incredibly diverse, ranging from courtroom drama to contract negotiations, overseeing real estate transactions, drafting wills, negotiating settlements, and representing clients on a variety of public-interest issues. Still others in the profession become prominent business leaders, political leaders, policy analysts, judges or law school professors. The law degree (known as a juris doctor, or JD ) is a graduate degree that provides countless options for career choices upon its completion. The course of study for a law degree requires three years to complete. Some schools also offer part-time programs, and students in the programs generally take four years to complete their JDs. Upon completing a JD, a graduate must pass a state's bar examination before he or she is qualified to practice law in that state. In our state, the Washington State Bar Association administers the admissions, licensing and discipline functions for the 22,000-plus attorneys in the state. For more information about the Washington bar exam, see
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Extractions: Critical Reading Abilities: Substantial experience at close reading and critical analysis of complex textual material is essential for legal study. Much of what law students and attorneys do involves careful reading and sophisticated comprehension of judicial opinions, statutes, documents and other written materials of substantial length. Law students are also required to assimilate large amounts of material in short periods of time. Critical reading abilities may be developed in a wide range of experiences, including complex material in literature, political or economic theory, philosophy, or history.
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Extractions: Political Science 111 Introduction to U.S. Politics. (4) 121 International Relations. (4) 176 January Term Topics. (0-4) ... 398 Honors Senior Project. (4) Department Chair: Manju Parikh [Top] Faculty: Rodney Cunningham, Joseph Farry, Scott Johnson, Philip Kronebusch, James Murphy, Manju Parikh, Gary Prevost, James Read, Daniel Ward, Robert Weber, Kay Wolsborn The political science department provides all students a challenging, engaging curriculum to prepare them for living, working and participating actively as citizens in complex, modern technological societies. The political science curriculum builds on a coherent structure whose core embodies the divergent perspectives of departmental faculty concerning knowledge, teaching, values, and scholarship. In addition to classroom courses, experiential learning opportunities are also encouraged including Model United Nations competition, summer experience in Washington, D.C., study abroad, and internships in legal and public sector settings. Political science majors choose sequences of courses suitable to their interests, talents and prospective careers. Majors may choose to focus on political theory, pre-law, public policy, political institutions, foreign policy, comparative politics, international relations, international political economy and other areas as appropriate. All majors are encouraged to choose electives from cognate fields.
