Students in the legal studies minor are not required to follow major requirements such as taking courses in each thematic area, the philosophy (ethics) requirement, or a senior seminar course.
One lower-division course.
Any five upper-division electives may be used to complete the minor.
The following courses are offered by the Legal Studies (LGST) Program, are crosslisted with LGST by another department, or are offered by another department. Enrollment in LGST or the course code listed will count toward the legal studies major requirements.
| POLI 102 | Doing Research | 5 |
| POLI 103 | Feminist Interventions | 5 |
| LGST 108 | Gender, Sexuality, and Law | 5 |
| LGST 109 | Legal Theory | 5 |
| HIS 110B | Revolutionary America, 1740-1815 | 5 |
| HIS 110D | The Civil War Era | 5 |
| ANTH 110C
/LGST 112
| California Pasts | 5 |
| LGST 111B
/POLI 111B
| Civil Liberties | 5 |
| LGST 111C | Issues in Constitutional Law | 5 |
| LGST 113 | Gay Rights and the Law | 5 |
| LGST 114 | Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the American Legal System | 5 |
| PSYC 114 | Human Development as a Cultural Process | 5 |
| LGST 115 | Law and the Holocaust | 5 |
| LGST 116
/POLI 116
| Comparative Law | 5 |
| LGST 117 | Sports, Law, and Politics | 5 |
| LGST 118 | Law and Literature | 5 |
| HIS 121B | African American History: 1877 to the Present | 5 |
| LGST 125 | History of the U.S. Penal Culture | 5 |
| LGST 130 | Inequality and Law | 5 |
| ANTH 130C | Politics and Culture in China | 5 |
| LGST 131 | Wildlife, Wilderness, and the Law | 5 |
| LGST 133
/POLI 133
| Law of Democracy | 5 |
| LGST 135 | Native Peoples Law | 5 |
| LGST 136 | Federal Indian Law and International Comparative Indigenous Peoples' Law | 5 |
| LGST 137 | International Environmental Law and Policy | 5 |
| LGST 139 | War Crimes | 5 |
| ENVS 140 | National Environmental Policy | 5 |
| PHIL 140 | History of Ethics | 5 |
| PSYC 140M | Legitimizing (In)Equality: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Social Policy | 5 |
| LGST 146
/PHIL 146
| Philosophy of Law | 5 |
| ANTH 148
/FMST 148
| Gender and Global Development | 5 |
| LGST 150 | Children and the Law | 5 |
| ENVS 152
/POLI 170
| International Environmental Politics | 5 |
| LGST 152 | Courts and Litigation | 5 |
| LGST 153 | Immigration, Citizenship, and Law | 5 |
| PHIL 153 | Philosophy of Race | 5 |
| PSYC 153 | The Psychology of Poverty and Social Class | 5 |
| LGST 154 | The Legal Profession | 5 |
| LGST 155 | Topics in American Legal History: Making of American Constitutionalism | 5 |
| LGST 156 | Administrative Law and Challenges of Regulation | 5 |
| LGST 157 | Political Jurisprudence | 5 |
| LGST 158
/POLI 158
| Law and Politics of Memory | 5 |
| LGST 159 | Property and the Law | 5 |
| POLI 160B
/LGST 160B
| International Law | 5 |
| LGST 161 | Intellectual Property | 5 |
| LIT 168A | The Culture of Islamic Law | 5 |
| LGST 173
/POLI 173
| Disability, Law, & Politics | 5 |
| POLI 175
/LGST 175
| Human Rights | 5 |
| ENVS 179 | Environmental Interpretation | 5 |
| LGST 185 | Legal Studies Internship/Field Seminar: Experiences in Law, Policy, and Society | 5 |
| SOCY 185 | Environmental Inequality | 5 |
| POLI 186
/LGST 186
| Global Health Politics | 5 |
| ANTH 187 | Cultural Heritage in Colonial Contexts | 5 |
| ANTH 187B | Cultural Resource Management | 5 |
| LGST 188A
/OAKS 188A
| Introduction to the Legal Profession and Legal Aid Work | 2 |
| OAKS 188B
/LGST 188B
| Legal Field Practice: Professional Skills and Ethics | 3 |
| FMST 194O
/CRES 190O
| The Politics of Gender and Human Rights | 5 |
| LALS 194X | Extractivism and Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Americas | 5 |