Tom's Office Hours: MW 2:30pm-3:30pm and by appt., Rome 552

Evan's Office Hours: M 12:30pm-2:30pm and F 1:30pm-3:30pm, Philips 508

Philosophy of Law Reading Schedule

Week Beginning: Day Topic Reading Assignment
25-Aug Monday Introduction
Wednesday Positivism: Command View Austin, "The Province of Jurisprudence"
2-Sep Monday Labor Day No Class
Wednesday Positivism: Primary & Secondary Rules Hart, The Concept of Law (selections)

First Paper Topic Posted
9-Sep Monday Positivism: Primary & Secondary Rules Hart, The Concept of Law (selections)
Wednesday Natural Law: Classical Formulation Aquinas, Summa Theologica (Read the sections titled Question 90 and Question 94)
16-Sep Monday Natural Law: Classical Formulation Aquinas, Summa Theologica (Read the sections titled Question 90 and Question 94)
Wednesday Natural Law: Contemporary Formulations Finnis, Natural Law and Natural Rights (selections)

First Draft of First Paper Submitted in Class
23-Sep Monday Natural Law: Contemporary Formulations Murphy, "Natural Law Jurisprudence"
Wednesday Natural Law: Rule of Law View First Drafts Returned
29-Sep Monday Economic View Fuller, "Eight Ways to Fail to Make Law"
Wednesday Integrity View Posner, "Values and Consequences"

Second Draft of First Paper Submitted in Class
7-Oct Monday Integrity View Dworkin, Law’s Empire (selections)

Second Paper Topic Posted
Wednesday Legal Realism Holmes, "The Path of the Law" (esp. 457-468); Frank, Law and the Modern Mind, Chapter 5

Second Drafts Returned
14-Oct Monday Critical Legal Studies Kennedy, The Distinction Between Adjudication and Legislation
Wednesday Catch Up Catch Up

Final Draft of First Paper Submitted on BB by 11:59PM
21-Oct Monday Fall Break Fall Break
Wednesday Critical Race Theory Crenshaw, "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex"

First Draft of Second Paper Submitted in Class
28-Oct Monday Critical Race Theory Bell, "Racial Realism"
Wednesday The New Jim Crow Alexander, "The Color of Justice," The New Jim Crow, Chapter 3
4-Nov Monday Feminist Critics Smith, "Four Themes in Feminist Legal Theory: Difference, Dominance, Domesticity, and Denial"

First Drafts Returned
Wednesday Feminist Critics MacKinnon, "Sexual Harassment: Its First Decade in Court"
11-Nov Monday Is there a duty to obey the law?? Smith, "Is There a Prima Facie Obligation to Obey the Law?"

Second Draft of Second Paper Submitted in Class
Wednesday Sure there is… Rawls, "Legal Obligation and the Duty of Fair Play"

Third Paper Topic Posted
18-Nov Monday But... Shelby, "Justice, Deviance, and the Dark Ghetto"

Second Drafts Returned
Wednesday King, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"; Rawls, "The Justification of Civil Disobedience"
25-Nov Monday Violence Democracy Now clip on Dan Berrigan; Morreal, "The Justifiability of Violent Civil Disobedience"
Wednesday Thanksgiving Thanksgiving

DUE FRIDAY: Final Draft of Second Paper Submitted on BB by 11:59PM
2-Dec Monday Originalism Scalia, "Common Law Courts in a Civil Law System"
Wednesday And its Discontents Dworkin, "Comments on Scalia"; Scalia, "Response" (pp. 144-149)
9-Dec Monday Dworkin, The Moral Reading of the Constitution

(OPTIONAL) First Draft of Third Paper Submitted on Google Drive
16-Dec Monday FINAL PAPER DUE Final Draft of Third Paper Submitted on BB by December 16, 12:20pm