The Law Politics and Society LAPS Program is a systematic but flexible interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between law political life and Canadian society It examines the nature of law and its influence on Canadians and their polity and explores how law is made and changed and what forces shape it Students learn about the institutional character of law making and enforcement and also the social factors that shape and are shaped by law Given the growing centrality of law in Canadian society attention is increasingly being paid to the nature and composition of the bar and bench and the politics of judicial appointment increasingly make the front page Law Politics and Society is an interdisciplinary program but is also a fine complement to studies in Human Rights Political Science Criminology or Sociology

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