The Law and Politics Focus gives students a pathway to study how law and political power shape one another, and how courts, constitutions, legal actors, and institutional norms mediate relationships between citizens and states. In this focus, students examine the promises and limits of law, legal institutions, and legal advocacy in sustaining the rule of law, protecting civil liberties, and constraining state power, while also grappling with how legal tools can be weaponized to entrench power and inequality. Courses span time and place, enabling study of law and politics from diverse theoretical and empirical perspectives across Canadian, U.S., and transnational contexts, including international organizations,