Fall 2023/Spring 2024 LSC Emphasis
In the 2023–2024 year, the following courses make up the emphasis, along with year-long participation in the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops:
This course prepares participants to challenge, disrupt, and enrage the silencing, fragmenting, and destroying archive (Fuentes; Mbembe; Trouillot) that constitutes the basis of legal research and judicial argumentation in Latin America. Whether it is a repository of state secrets, a catalog of corporate violence, a precious collection of kinship connections, an archive is constructed for purposes rooted in time, place, and socio-material conditions (Burns; Burton; Steedman). Archives, this course poses, are not logical, but they have narratives that when unlocked, reveal traumas, painful legacies, and entry points to the stolen goods of the past. Foundational to legal practice and critical legal analysis, archives, and their administrators, are simultaneous sources and gatekeepers for evidence, data, and information. In this course, we learn the history and the theory of archives as an essential tool of critical legal practices while developing a praxis of archival engagement, creation, and confrontation.
This course is meant to train you to think more critically about the complicated relationships between gender, law, and society. Across a range of contexts and levels of analysis, we will consider the underlying assumptions to law when we see it through a gendered lens? To conduct this interrogation, the first few weeks of this course will set up a strong theoretical grounding and a feminist framework for legal analysis. In the weeks following, we will use these frameworks to consider different areas of law and policy, especially considering the ways they intersect with other identity categories like race, class, national context, and ability. Although we will spend time talking about what have typically been thought of as gender issues (e.g. identity, body, work, and family), the goal of the class is to equip you to unpack gendered meanings across intersectional contexts and to cultivate an understanding of most processes as inherently gendered even when they do not expressly call attention to gender.
The ninth cohort includes seven students representing schools from across UCI:
Gabriel Alvarez
Adviser: Jane Stoever
Delaney Mosca
Adviser: Ji Seon Song
Alex Niner
Adviser: Roderic Crooks
Jahaira Pacheco
Adviser: Annie Lai
Grace Palcic
Adviser: Jennifer Terry
Danielle Puretz
Adviser: Stephen Lee
Muhammad Raqib
Adviser: Vibhuti Ramachandran