Critical Race Theory

This required survey course provides a foundation for students to critically engage with how the U.S. system of laws has installed, reinforced, or responded to systems of racial oppression, and to consider how racial hierarchy in the law could be disrupted and dismantled, and racial harms remediated. Its pedagogic approach includes providing historical context for understanding how the ideology of white supremacy influenced the development of law in the U.S., addressing critical theory, and surveying relevant legal doctrinal topics that illustrate the operation of structural racism and racial inequality in the law.