Law & Society Undergraduate Summer Seminar
Immigration, Refugees and the Rule of Law
June 5-10, 2017Featuring faculty presenters from Five Colleges of Ohio and Ohio law school faculty.
Law & Poverty: Reflections on the Legal Problems of the Poor
June 6-11, 2016Presentations and readings ranged from the legal impact of economic inequality to indigents' rights.
Race, Crime and Social Justice
June 8-13, 2015Topics ranged from racial profiling and cross-racial eyewitness identification to wrongful convictions and excessive use of force.
Law in the Liberal Arts: The Adams Summer Legal Scholars Program announces the third annual Law & Society Summer Seminar, an intensive mini-conference in undergraduate legal studies, which will take place June 5-10, 2017. The topic will be "Immigration, Refugees and the Rule of Law."
Modeled after the legal studies seminars sponsored by the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society at Oxford University’s Centre for Socio-legal Studies in Oxford, UK, the Adams Program looks to replicate the spirit and format of the Oxford program in which Kenyon’s Summer Legal Scholars were among the original participants. The seminar brings together a select group of students from across the Five Colleges of Ohio and is designed to promote the close examination of current topics or themes in law through presentations and discussions led by faculty in multiple disciplines at the consortium’s colleges as well as from participating Ohio law schools.
The conference will be held on the campus of Kenyon College from June 5-10, 2017. Read more about the conference (PDF). Interested students from the following colleges should submit a letter of interest to the Office of the Provost/Dean at their respective institutions by March 24. Download the submission guidelines (PDF).
College of Wooster
Denison University
Oberlin College
Ohio Wesleyan University
Kenyon College* (2017 Summer Legal Scholars)
For more details, please contact Professor Ric Sheffield at sheffier@kenyon.edu or Andrea Lechleitner at lechleitnera@kenyon.edu.