Legal Studies Program

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Alyssa Tamboura Receives Donald A. Strauss Scholarship!

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Featured Profile

Strauss Foundation Awards Alyssa Tamboura $15,000 Public Service Scholarship to Carry Out Project in Her Junior Year at UC Santa Cruz

The Donald A. Strauss Public Service Scholarship Foundation, established as a memorial to the late Don Strauss of Newport Beach and now designed to award $15,000 scholarships to as many as 15 California college sophomores and juniors annually, has announced that among the foundation’s new group of recipients is a UC Santa Cruz student, Alyssa Marie Tamboura. Continue»

Events of Interest

Apr 15: Spring Quarter: Legal Studies Writing/Study Tutor Program Begins
Apr 25: Distinguished Alumni Award: Judge Teri L. Jackson
Apr 27: Alumni Careers in Law Panel

Featured Research

Legal Studies professor, Mark Fathi Massoud, is working on a new colloaborative project about Shari'a law in California. The goal of the project, Shari’a Revoiced: Documenting American Muslims' Experiences of Islamic Law, is to uncover new voices and understandings of Islamic law among Muslim communities in California, a microcosm of the United States. Visit their website at https://www.shariarevoiced.org to learn more.

Professor Massoud also recently published an article with Professor Kathleen M. Moore from UCSB in Boom: The Journal of Califronia, "Rethinking Shari'a: Voices of Islam in California."

Our Program

The Legal Studies program is an interdisciplinary major offered under the jurisdiction of the Politics Department. It is designed for students who wish to use the methods and perspectives of various academic disciplines to study legal issues. Learn more...

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