University of Massachusetts School of Law

Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst provides an interdisciplinary approach to the study of law and society. As a department within the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Legal Studies offers its courses to the entire University and maintains a major for approximately four hundred students. The purposes of this multifaceted program are the development of the study of law within a liberal arts framework and the exploration of the myriad ways in which law study is connected with other disciplines pertinent to an understanding of society.

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