Mission Statement
The Graduate Program in Legal Studies: Law and Public Policy track allows seasoned practitioners and scholarly graduate students the opportunity to address, analyze and critique the law and its implications from a social, administrative, juridical, operational, philosophical and managerial perspective. Special emphasis is given to the ethical considerations inherent in all legal decision-making, the constitutional parameters of law and its practice and practical assessments of how law influences the culture, the community and the individual.
This course of study enhances the ability to advocate and argue; the capacity to research and assess; the disposition to reconcile and mediate; and the plethora of human and institutional skills necessary for action, legislation or policy implementation.
Implementation of this new web based degree serves historically underrepresented clientele, namely those that lack the flexibility or financial resources to attend class fulltime, those with variable work hours or family responsibilities that make attending a traditional graduate program a difficulty.