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Law and Justice is an interdisciplinary minor that includes courses from a wide spectrum of academic departments, including communication, sociology, English, history, business policy, baccalaureate honors, political science, psychology, and philosophy, as well as legal studies courses developed specifically for this program.

Is The Law and Justice Minor For You?

This Minor will provide students with in-depth knowledge and understanding of laws, legal institutions and processes and their relationships to social, moral, political, and economic issues. Students will benefit from learning to approach law and law enforcement from diverse perspectives. The Law and Justice Minor will provide students, regardless of specific career goals, with tools for reasoned appraisal of how the law works and its social consequences; it will make students better citizens by demystifying law, legal ideas and concepts and by enabling them critically to evaluate laws, legal institutions and policies. The Minor enables students to focus their course of study around their specific career goals and can be combined with any major program.

Pre-Law Advising

Experienced faculty members of the law and justice program committee advise students expressing an interest in pursuing a career in law or law-related fields. Faculty advisors assist students in all phases of pre-law preparation from course selection to law school applications. The law and justice program also sponsors workshops on various aspects of the application process.

Career Advising

A faculty member of the Law and Justice Program Committee experienced in the field of criminal justice will advise students in course and career planning. The Law and Justice Director maintains information regarding careers in law enforcement and Criminal Justice at the federal, state and local levels.

General Contact information
Dr. Pamela A. Brown, Director
Professor, Department of Communication and Journalism
Fine Arts 250
609-896-5107
brownp@rider.edu