Calendar. The assignments below are approximate and tentative. The reading guide for each class will give full details of the assignment and sometimes include passages that are part of your assignment.
| 8/27 | introduction | |
| 8/30 | Aquinas, from Summa Theologić I-II, Q. 90, 91, 94 (Culver, pp. 37-51) | reading guide |
| 9/1 | Aquinas, from Summa Theologić I-II, Q. 95-97 (Culver, pp. 51-54 and handout) | reading guide |
| 9/3 | Locke, selections from the Second Treatise of Government (handout) | reading guide |
| 9/6 | Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, lecture I (Culver, pp. 96-105) | reading guide |
| 9/8 | Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, lecture I cont'd and selection from lecture V (Culver, pp. 106-112) | reading guide |
| 9/10 | Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, selections from lecture VI (Culver, pp. 112-115 and handout) | reading guide |
| 9/13 |
Holmes, selections from The Path of the Law(Culver, pp. 249-254) and Frank, Law and the Modern Mind, ch. V (Culver, pp. 259-262) |
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| 9/15 |
Llewellyn, selections from A Realistic Jurisprudence--The Next Step(on JSTOR) |
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| 9/17 |
Frank, Law and the Modern Mind, preface (Culver, pp. 259-262) and Words and Music: Some Remarks on Statuatory Interpretation(on JSTOR) |
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| 9/20 | no class | |
| 9/22 |
Kelsen, The Basic Norm, California Law Review, vol. 47 (1959), pp. 107-110 (on EBSCO) and Law, State, and Justice in the Pure Theory of Law(on JSTOR) |
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| 9/24 |
Hart, Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals, secs. I-III (Culver, pp. 116-134) |
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| 9/27 |
Hart, Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals, secs. IV-VI (Culver, pp. 134-145) and Fuller, The Problem of the Grudge Informer(Culver, pp. 172-177) |
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| 9/29 | Hart, The Concept of Law, ch. V (Culver, pp. 145-159) | reading guide |
| 10/1 | Hart, The Concept of Law, ch. VI, secs. 1-2 (Culver, pp. 159-171) | reading guide |
| 10/4 |
Ronald Dworkin, The Model of Rules I, secs. 1-3 (Culver, pp. 185-197) and Riggs v. Palmer (Culver, pp. 233-240) |
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| 10/6 |
Ronald Dworkin, The Model of Rules I, secs. 4-6 (Culver, pp. 197-211) |
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| 10/8 | Ronald Dworkin, Law's Empire, sels. from ch. 7 (Culver, pp. 212-232) | reading guide |
| 10/11 | Ronald Dworkin, Law's Empire, sels. cont'd (Culver, pp. 212-232) | reading guide |
| 10/13 | Unger, The Critical Legal Studies Movement, intro., ch. 1, and excerpt from ch. 2 (Culver, pp. 295-310) | reading guide |
| midsemester break | ||
| 10/18 |
Rawls, Two Concepts of Rules, secs. I-II (on JSTOR) |
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| 10/20 |
Rawls, Two Concepts of Rules, secs. III-IV (on JSTOR) |
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| 10/22 | Hohfeld, sel. from "Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning" (handout) | reading guide |
| 10/25 | Hohfeld, sel. from "Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning" (handout) | reading guide |
| 10/27 | Mill, sels. from On Liberty (Culver, pp. 326-342) | reading guide |
| 10/29 |
Gerald Dworkin, Paternalismand Paternalism: Some Second Thoughts(Culver, pp. 342-363) |
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| 11/1 | Hart, postscript to Punishment and Responsibility (Culver, pp. 404-417) | reading guide |
| 11/3 | Duff, sels. from Criminal Attempts (Culver, pp. 418-429) | reading guide |
| 11/5 | Duff, sels. from Criminal Attempts (Culver, pp. 429-441) | reading guide |
| 11/8 |
Posner, The Concept of Corrective Justice in Recent Theories of Tort Law(on JSTOR) |
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| 11/10 |
Posner, The Concept of Corrective Justice in Recent Theories of Tort Law(on JSTOR) |
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| 11/12 |
Coleman, Corrective Justice and Wrongful Gain(on JSTOR) |
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| 11/15 |
Coleman, Corrective Justice and Wrongful Gain(on JSTOR) |
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| 11/17 |
Kronman, Contract Law and Distributive Justice(on JSTOR) |
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| 11/19 |
Kronman, Contract Law and Distributive Justice(on JSTOR) |
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| Thanksgiving break | ||
| 11/29 | Grotius, sels. from On the Law of War and Peace (Culver, pp. 464-476) | reading guide |
| 11/31 | Hart, The Concept of Law, ch. X secs. 1-3 (Culver, pp. 477-486) | reading guide |
| 12/3 | Hart, The Concept of Law, ch. X secs. 4-5 (Culver, pp. 486-493) | reading guide |
| 12/6 |
Koskenniemi, The Politics of International Law, secs. I-IV.A (Culver, pp. 494-510) |
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| 12/8 |
Koskenniemi, The Politics of International Law, secs. IV.B-concl. (Culver, pp. 510-521) |
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| 12/10 | selections from an Internation Court of Justice advisory opinion (Culver, pp. 521-547) | reading guide |