Reading Schedule
In what follows, MB refers to the textbook Philosophy of Law edited by May and Brown, all other documents can be accessed by following the hyperlink. | ||||
Day | Date | Topic | Sub-Topic | Reading |
Tuesday | 23-Jan | Introduction | ||
Thursday | 25-Jan | Analytic Jurisprudence | Positivism: Command View | Austin, "The Provence of Jurisprudence" (PDF) |
Tuesday | 30-Jan | Analytic Jurisprudence | Positivism: Primary & Secondary Rules | Hart, The Concept of Law (MB 85-98) |
Thursday | 1-Feb | Analytic Jurisprudence | Positivism: Primary & Secondary Rules | Hart, The Concept of Law (MB 85-98) |
Tuesday | 6-Feb | Analytic Jurisprudence | Natural Law: Classical Formulation | Aquinas, Summa Theologica, "Questions 90 and 94" |
Thursday | 8-Feb | Analytic Jurisprudence | Natural Law: Rule of Law View | Fulller, "Eight Ways to Fail to Make Law" (PDF) |
Tuesday | 13-Feb | Analytic Jurisprudence | Natural Law: Contemporary Formulations | Murphy, "Natural Law Jurisprudence" (PDF) |
Thursday | 15-Feb | Analytic Jurisprudence | Natural Law: Contemporary Formulations | Murphy, "Natural Law Jurisprudence" (PDF) |
Tuesday | 20-Feb | Analytic Jurisprudence | Economic View | Posner, "The Economic Approach to Law" (MB 129-134) |
Thursday | 22-Feb | Analytic Jurisprudence | Integrity View | Dworkin, "The Model of Rules I" (MB 99-107) |
Tuesday | 27-Feb | Legal Reasoning | Integrity View | Dworkin, "The Model of Rules I" (MB 99-107) |
Thursday | 1-Mar | Legal Reasoning | Introduction to Analogical Reasoning | Levi, "An Introduction to Legal Reasoning" (MB 11-22) |
Tuesday | 6-Mar | EXAM REVIEW DAY | ||
Thursday | 8-Mar | FIRST EXAM | FIRST EXAM | FIRST EXAM |
Tuesday | 13-Mar | SPRING BREAK | ||
Thursday | 15-Mar | SPRING BREAK | ||
Tuesday | 20-Mar | Critical Jurisprudence | Legal Realism | Holmes, "The Path of the Law"(esp. 457-468) (PDF); Frank, Law and the Modern Mind, Chapter 5 (PDF) |
Thursday | 22-Mar | Critical Jurisprudence | Critical Legal Studies | Kennedy, "The Distinction Between Adjudication and Legislation" (MB 135-144) |
Tuesday | 27-Mar | Critical Jurisprudence | Critical Race Theory | Crenshaw et al, "Critical Race Theory" (MB 145-151) |
Thursday | 29-Mar | Critical Jurisprudence | Critical Race Theory | Bell, "Racial Realism" (PDF) |
Tuesday | 3-Apr | Critical Jurisprudence | The New Jim Crow | Alexander, "The Color of Justice," The New Jim Crow, Chapter 3 |
Thursday | 5-Apr | Critical Jurisprudence | Feminist Critics | Smith, "Feminist Critics: The Reluctant Radicals" (MB 152-163) |
Tuesday | 10-Apr | Critical Jurisprudence | Feminist Critics | Smith, "Feminist Critics: The Reluctant Radicals" (MB 152-163) |
Thursday | 12-Apr | Obligation and the Law | Is there a duty to obey the law?? | Smith, "Is There a Prima Facie Obligation to Obey the Law?" (PDF) |
Tuesday | 17-Apr | Obligation and the Law | Sure there is… | Rawls, "Legal Obligation and the Duty of Fair Play" (PDF) |
Thursday | 19-Apr | Obligation and the Law | But... | Shelby, "Justice, Deviance, and the Dark Ghetto" (PDF) |
Tuesday | 24-Apr | Civil Disobedience | King, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (PDF); Rawls, "The Justification of Civil Disobedience" (PDF) | |
Thursday | 26-Apr | Civil Disobedience | Violence | Democracy Now clip on Dan Berrigan; Morreal, "The Justifiability of Violent Civil Disobedience" |
Tuesday | 1-May | Constitution | Originalism | Scalia, "Common Law Courts in a Civil Law System" (PDF) |
Thursday | 3-May | Constitution | And its Discontents | Dworkin, "Comments on Scalia" (PDF); Scalia, "Response" (PDF, pp. 144-149) |
FINAL EXAM DATE | 10-May | FINAL EXAM | 10:30am - 1:15pm |