This seminar has been designed for graduate students interested in thinking more deeply about law, state power, rights, and the individual. It offers a survey of various core readings in sociolegal studies. Ranging from classical sociological approaches to law and legal institutions, to various contemporary and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of law, power, and society, this course explores the making, production, cohesion, and undoing of law and its relationship to power. The course readings include themes that allow us to make sense of law's colonial, settler, and violent pasts as well as its promise. Most centrally, the objective is to explore the way that law's enduring structures shape contemporary life.