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LGST 126CContraband: Shadow Economies and the Law

5 creditsGE CCUndergraduateStudent Option

Course takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying contraband and smuggling. Focusing on concepts used to describe illegality we examine how ''shadow economies'' are central to the making of states and sovereignty, the legal and illegal being blurred.

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When it runs

Fall 2025Open Fall 2025

SectionTypeWhenWhereInstructorSeats
01Lecture
Tue Thu 5:20pm–6:55pm
Cowell Clrm 131N. MahajanClosed 49/50

Who teaches it

InstructorRatingDifficultyWould take againReviews
Nidhi Mahajan2.2 / 52.0 / 540%5

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