INQ-120 | Law and Morality

Full Title: Law and Morality

Topic Description:

Must the law always be moral? Is it ever acceptable to create laws that are immoral? This course is organized around a semester-long inquiry into how our American legal system has developed alongside our collective sense of what is good and right behavior, as compared to behavior that is bad and wrong. Students will learn how to explain, apply, and evaluate general notions of law and morality, along with specific issues within the modern American legal system that raise particular questions of the conflict between law and morality.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: October 2022