Department of Law, Societies and Justice

  • UW Students Join Their Classmates in Prison

    UW students and prison inmates met weekly for a senior seminar—a "mixed enrollment" class in which the two groups worked together as peers.

    April 2014 Perspectives

  • Working for Justice in El Salvador

    Students and faculty in the UW's Center for Human Rights, working with a partner organization in El Salvador, are helping Salvadorans seek justice for crimes committed during El Salvador's brutal civil war.

    May 2013 Perspectives

  • Encouraging Connections through Service

    April 2012 Perspectives

  • Banishment as City Policy

    The growing trend of allowing police to "banish" citizens from certain neighborhoods is explored in Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America, by UW Professors Katherine Beckett and Steve Herbert.

    May 2010 Perspectives