Women in Law

Instructor: Professor Thomas F. Jurney
               Interdisciplinary Studies

This course approaches the question of law and women from two perspectives. The first is the treatment of women by the law, a study of the progression (and occasional regression) of the advance of the rights of women, looking both at the law and society, which alternate roles as the instigator of change. Second, in a more personal approach, students will pick a significant woman in the law, from activists changing the law to Supreme Court Justices. Finally, students, armed with both of these perspectives, will put their chosen women into their historical and societal context, to view them not through modern eyes, but through the society of their times, to truly appreciate the level of struggle and vehemence of scorn these women had to fight to get where they did.