A Message from the Director
Dear Graduate Student in Legal Studies,
As Director of the Graduate program in Legal Studies, it is my distinct honor to welcome your participation in this intellectual undertaking. You are part of a community of scholars - all of whom yearn for further knowledge about law in a local, regional and international sense. In law and legal systems, both individuals and the collectives come to depend on its promise of order and communal stability. In jurisprudence and legal analysis, the student becomes adept at the real purpose of law in modern life- not only the maintenance of order and the regulation of things- but also the assurance that communities and nations can live in harmony and with due respect for the rights of individuals and sovereignties.
California University of Pennsylvania's program in Legal Studies: Law and Public Policy brings the core principles of Western jurisprudence to the forefront and hopes so fervently to instruct its graduates on substantive and procedural questions about law and its application in diverse settings. Even more compellingly, the program advocates and inculcates the ambitions of true legal reasoning and its practice- to prepare leaders for free and democratic societies and to insure justice whenever and wherever possible.
Your journey with us will be as stimulating as it is noble. California University of Pennsylvania is honored to have your participation.
With warmest regards,
Charles P. Nemeth JD, Ph.D, LL.M
Director and Professor of Graduate Legal Studies