Texts:
H. L A. Hart, The Concept of Law (Oxford University Press, 1997).
On JSTOR:
Allen Buchanan, “Rule-Governed Institutions versus Act-Consequentialism: A Rejoinder to Naticchia,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 28 (1999), pp. 258-270 (on JSTOR)
Ronald Dworkin, “The Model of Rules,” The University of Chicago Law Review, vol. 35 (1967), pp. 14-46 (on JSTOR)
Ronald Dworkin, “Hard Cases,” Harvard Law Review, vol. 88 (1975), pp. 1057-1109 (on JSTOR)
George Fletcher, “Fairness and Utility in Tort Theory,” Harvard Law Review, vol. 85 (1972), pp. 537-573 (on JSTOR)
Kent Greenawalt, “The Perplexing Borders of Justification and Excuse,” Columbia Law Review, vol. 84 (1984), pp. 1897-1927 (on JSTOR)
Wesley Hohfeld, selections from “Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning,” The Yale Law Journal, vol. 23 (1913), pp. 16-59 (on JSTOR)
Oliver Wendall Holmes, Jr., “The Path of the Law,” Harvard Law Review, vol. 10 (1897), pp. 457-478 (on JSTOR)
Hans Kelsen, “The Pure Theory of Law and Analytical Jurisprudence,” Harvard Law Review, vol. 55 (1941), pp. 44-70 (on JSTOR)
Anthony Kronman, “Contract Law and Distributive Justice,” The Yale Law Journal, vol. 89 (1980), pp. 472-511 (on JSTOR)
Chris Naticchia, “Recognition and Legitimacy: A Reply to Buchanan,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 28 (1999), pp. 242-257 (on JSTOR)
Richard Posner, “Utilitarianism, Economics, and Legal Theory,” The Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 8 (1979), pp. 103-140 (on JSTOR)
John Rawls, “Two Concepts of Rules,” The Philosophical Review, vol. 64 (1955), pp. 3-32 (on JSTOR)
Handouts:
“Some Greek and Roman ideas of natural law,” selections from Aristotle, Cicero, and the Roman jurists (handout)
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiæ, I-II, qq. 90, 91, 94 (handout 1); qq. 95-97 (handout 2)
John Austin, lecture I (lecture 1 ho) and selections from lectures V (lecture 5 ho) and VI (lecture 6 ho) of The Province of Jurisprudence Determined
Hugo Grotius, selections from Grotius on the Rights of War and Peace: An Abridged Translation. (handout)
John Stuart Mill, selections from On Liberty (handout)