POLS 3030: Topics-Comp or Intl Politics: Law and Economics

University of North Carolina, Charlotte

An intensive study of a topic in comparative or international politics. Section information text: Ever wondered why we have nutrition labels on all your food and your phone apps require you to read a hundred pages of fine print? What about why North Carolina has a contributory negligence tort system of liability and almost every other state doesn’t – but more importantly what difference that makes? Do you know how the American property rights system(s) have facilitated our national economic success? Would you be interested in how the law tries to keep business competitors from cooperating against consumers to raise their profits? What about how statistics can explain why lawyers strike jurors and how effective the death penalty is as a deterrent? If so, law and economics is the class that can provide some answers to these questions.

Average GPA: 3.01

Grade distribution records: 1,799 students across 30 terms.

Grade distribution

Based on 1,799 student grade records across 30 terms and 19 professors.

Instructors

• Amal Khoury 363 students, Average GPA 3.24
• Kamila Valenta 337 students, Average GPA 3.00
• Cheryl Brown 290 students, Average GPA 2.43
• Justin Conrad 177 students, Average GPA 3.21
• Gabriela Tarazona-Sevillano 101 students, Average GPA 2.85
• Hania Mounir Al-Shamat 89 students, Average GPA 2.93
• James Walsh 88 students, Average GPA 3.43
• Cynthia Combs 50 students, Average GPA 3.19
• Harry Chernotsky 49 students, Average GPA 2.59
• Yaoyao Dai 46 students, Average GPA 3.15
• Peter Thompson 37 students, Average GPA 3.43
• Joshua Miller 30 students, Average GPA 4.00
• Gregory Weeks 23 students, Average GPA 2.28
• Kaitlyn Webster 18 students, Average GPA 2.24
• Mary Jo Mcgowan 18 students, Average GPA 2.88
• Dale Smith 17 students, Average GPA 2.50
• Alexander Kustov 12 students, Average GPA 3.18
• Imdat Ozen 12 students, Average GPA 3.18
• Anar Parikh 6 students, Average GPA 3.00