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In a crisis, national security initiatives move at the speed of a startup yet in peacetime they default to decades-long acquisition and procurement cycles. Startups operate with continual speed and urgency 24/7. Over the last few years they've learned how to be not only fast, but extremely efficient with resources ...

This five-unit seminar will be a geographically focused introduction to a domain of scholarly inquiry. The intersection of health, culture, and politics has been a fount for significant study over recent decades. An especially generative region for this form of inquiry has been Asia and more particularly China. In this ...

Thirty years ago the Cold War ended. Today, great power competition is back - or so it seems - with many describing our present era as a "New Cold War" between the United States and China and Russia. What happened? Is the Cold War label an illuminating or distorting analogy ...

Public-interest litigation is often an uphill battle. Lawyers and clients representing public interests have difficulty prevailing even when their fact patterns are sympathetic, often because the law is either undeveloped or unsupportive. Yet when public-interest litigation does succeed it can yield profound, positive change for underserved people and causes. This ...

Advanced Negotiation courses are designed to take students beyond the two-party, lawyer-client negotiations that were the focus of the Negotiation Seminar, to examine many facets of negotiation complexity, both in terms of the participants and topics. This section of Advanced Negotiation will focus on multi-party negotiations, working in teams, group ...

The introduction of artificial intelligence and autonomy into warfare will have profound and unforeseen consequences for national security and human society. This course prepares future policymakers and industry leaders for the complex debate surrounding the developmental, legal, ethical, and operational considerations of creating machines with the ability to apply lethal ...

Practical leadership exercises including physical fitness training. May be repeated for credit.

Undergraduate students enroll in 115A. Graduate students enroll in 215A. Is it possible that the way in which the ancients resolved the serious problem of political representation in Athenian democracy gives us fundamental keys to understand and give a satisfactory answer to the problem of political representation in contemporary democracy ...

Leadership laboratories, held weekly for three hours, are required of all students. Performance during lab periods is reflected in the student's course grade. Labs include activities such as rappelling, terrain navigation, marksmanship, drill and ceremonies, and tactical field training exercises.

Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik El Shabazz) and Martin Luther King, Jr. are both icons of the twentieth-century civil rights and black freedom movements. Often characterized as polar opposites - one advocating armed self-defense and the other non-violence against all provocation - they continue to be important religious, political, and ...

Why don't we have an HIV vaccine, or a cure for Alzheimer's disease? Why weren't we better prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic? Why do vast inequalities persist in who has access to biomedical innovations, and in what kinds of innovations are brought to market? In this policy-focused seminar we will ...

(LAW 1047) Large corporations now routinely spend millions of dollars to protect human rights and the environment. Shell Nigeria builds hospitals and schools in the Niger Delta. Nike employs hundreds of inspectors to improve conditions for the factory workers who produce its shoes across Asia and Latin America. Technology companies ...

This interdisciplinary course integrates the legal, scientific, and policy dimensions of how we characterize and manage resource use and allocation along the California coast. We will use this geographic setting as the vehicle for exploring more generally how agencies, legislatures, and courts resolve resource-use conflicts and the role that scientific ...

This community-engaged learning class is part of a broader collaboration with the Program on Social Entrepreneurship and the Distinguished Visitors Program at the Haas Center for Public Service, using practice to better inform theory about how Public Interest Technology (PIT) ¿ the intersection of computer science, social science, law, and ...

This course will examine interactions between religion and education, focusing on both formal and experiential sites in which people and communities explore, articulate, encounter, and perform religious ideologies and identities. The class will focus on different religious traditions and their encounters the institutions and structures of education in American culture ...

This course analyzes the major civil rights laws that Congress has enacted since the 1960s, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Fair Housing Act, the Public Accommodations ACt, the AGe Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Americans with Disabilities ...

Addressing climate displacement is one of the central sustainability challenges facing current and future generations. The climate crisis is already driving people to move. According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, approximately 31.8 million people around the world were displaced by floods, storms, fires, and other weather-related hazards in 2022 ...

Analysts, pundits, and politicians have repeatedly warned us about entering a "New Cold War" between the United States and China. The reference to the Cold War intends to invoke the historical imagination of a binary world where liberal free world defends itself against the expansion of communist dictatorship through economic ...

AS102, "Competition and Security," introduces students to the concept of national security from a broad perspective, encompassing the military¿s involvement in securing national interests through a range of activities from cooperation to armed conflict. This course is designed to lay a solid foundation for understanding the multifaceted nature of global ...

This course will introduce students to the doctrine and theory of the constitutional law of freedom of speech, as well as some of the basic principles that govern the enforcement of freedom of the press and freedom of association. Topics explored in the course will include: advocacy of unlawful conduct ...