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SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
Part I: Theoretical Framework
1 Introduction  
2 Social Movements, NGOs and Civil Society: How Are They Different?  
3 Social Movements and the State: How Do They Interact?  
4 Law, Social Movements and Public Policy: Changing Domestic Contexts  
5 Law, Social Movements and Public Policy: Changing Global Contexts  
Part II: Domestic and Comparative Experience
6 Legal and Social Change in the US: Contesting Perspectives Paper assignment #1 handed out

Group Debate

Subject: "Public policy in the US is and should be primarily the result of legal measures. As such, social movement action must be targeted towards legal change".
7 Environment as an Arena of Struggle

Paper assignment #1 due
8 Speaker

Prof. Cary Coglianese, JFK School of Government, Harvard University		  
9 Feminism and Women's Movements  
10 Speaker

Prof. Ann Withorn, U Mass, Boston		  
11 Property, Poor Peoples' Movements and Social Justice  
12 Legal and Social Change in India: The Role of Mobilization and Activism  
13 Women's Rights v. Gender Justice Paper assignment #2 handed out
14 Speaker

Prof. Jyoti Puri, Simmons College		 Paper assignment #2 due
15 Environmentalism of the Poor  
16 Contesting Development: The Movement in the Narmada Valley - A Case Study  
17 Screening a Movie, Kaise Jeebo Re (How do I Survive, My Friend) and Discussion Continued on the Narmada Valley Movement  
18 Civil Rights and Public Interest Litigation  
Part III: Global Public Policy and Globalization from Below
19 Beyond the State? Changing Contexts for Law-making and Application at the Global Level Group Debate

Subject: "International law can/should no longer be understood within the framework of states; rather, what counts as 'law' globally is what can be mobilized for by global civil society".
20 The World Commission on Dams and the Struggle over Development  
21 Setting Global Environmental and Health Policy: The Case of Nuclear Weapons  
22 Peace and Security from Below Paper assignment #3 handed out
23 Global Economic Institutions and Resistance from the Margins: The World Bank and the IMF Paper assignment #3 due
24 The World Trade Organization and the Meaning of Seattle  
25 Human Rights and Global Public Policy: Corporate Responsibility

Speaker

Terry Collingsworth, Director, International Labor Rights Fund		  
26 Conclusion and Review Class