法律研究为本科生提供了与来自西北，法学院和专业领域的教授们进行激动人心的批判性工作的机会，并开设了各种创新主题的课程。最近的热门文章包括法律与社会，美国律师，人权和美国难民法，第一和第二部宪法以及美国的法律和宪法历史。<br> <br>这不是法律前课程。法律研究广泛地将法律概念包括法律机构，法律行为者和法律程序的研究。广义上讲，法律是一门社会机构，它为学生提供了一个很好的视角，使学生可以学习和批判性地研究其他学科的核心主题，从而阐明对法律的理解以及对这些学科核心的辩论。法律研究强调法律与社会之间的相互关系
The Legal Studies program offers a major situated in Weinberg College, but open to Northwestern undergraduates in all schools.<br><br>Legal Studies offers undergraduates the chance to engage in exciting, critical work with professors from all over Northwestern, the Law School, and the professional world, with courses in a variety of innovative topics. Recent favorites include Reality TV and Legal Theory, Gender, Sexuality and Carceral State, Animal Law, and Constitutional Law I and II.<br><br>It is not a pre-law program. Legal Studies conceives of law broadly to include the study of legal institutions, legal actors, and legal processes. Law, broadly conceived, is a social institution that provides an excellent lens through which students may learn about and critically examine a variety of themes central to other disciplines, shedding light on both the understanding of law as well as debates central to those disciplines. Legal Studies emphasizes the reciprocal relationships between law and society to examine the social environment.