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.
| 1/19 | some ideas of natural law (handout) |
| 1/21 | Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, lecture I and selections from lecture V (lecture 1 and 5 ho)—rdng gd |
| 1/26 | Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, selections from lecture VI (lecture 6 ho)—rdng gd |
| 1/28 | Holmes, “The Path of the Law” (on JSTOR)—rdng gd |
| 2/2 | Hart, The Concept of Law, ch. 3 §§1, 3; ch. 4 §1—rdng gd |
| 2/4 | Hart, The Concept of Law, ch. 5—rdng gd |
| 2/9 | Hart, The Concept of Law, ch. 6 §§1-2—rdng gd |
| 2/11 | Hart, The Concept of Law, ch. 7 §§1-3—rdng gd (ppr 1 due) |
| 2/16 | Hart, The Concept of Law, ch. 9 §1 pp. 192f, §2, §3 (vi), note to p. 208 (on pp. 303f)—rdng gd |
| 2/18 | R. Dworkin, “The Model of Rules,” (on JSTOR)—rdng gd |
| 2/23 | R. Dworkin, “Hard Cases,” §§I-III (on JSTOR)—rdng gd |
| 2/25 | R. Dworkin, “Hard Cases,” §IV.A-IV.B.2 (on JSTOR)—rdng gd |
| 3/2 | R. Dworkin, “Hard Cases,” §V (on JSTOR)—rdng gd |
| 3/4 | midterm exam |
| spring break | |
| 3/16 | Hart, The Concept of Law, ch. 8, §1—rdng gd |
| 3/18 | Hohfeld, “Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning,” pp. 16-20, 28-59 (on JSTOR)—rdng gd |
| 3/23 | Rawls, “Two Concepts of Rules” (on JSTOR)—rdng gd |
| 3/25 | Mill, sels. from On Liberty (handout)—rdng gd |
| 3/30 | Greenawalt, “The Perplexing Borders of Justification and Excuse,” intro. & §I (on JSTOR, pp. 1897-1915)—rdng gd |
| 4/1 | Greenawalt, “The Perplexing Borders of Justification and Excuse,” §§II-III (on JSTOR, pp. 1915-1927)—rdng gd |
| 4/6 | Fletcher, “Fairness and Utility in Tort Theory,” §§I-II (on JSTOR, pp. 537-556)—rdng gd |
| 4/8 | Fletcher, “Fairness and Utility in Tort Theory,” §§III-V (on JSTOR, pp. 556-573)—rdng gd |
| 4/13 | Posner, “Utilitarianism, Economics, and Legal Theory,” §§I-IIA (on JSTOR, pp. 103-119)—rdng gd |
| 4/15 | Posner, “Utilitarianism, Economics, and Legal Theory,” §IIB-app. D (on JSTOR, pp. 119-140)—rdng gd (ppr 2 due) |
| 4/20 | Grotius, sels. from Grotius on the Rights of War and Peace: An Abridged Translation. (handout)—rdng gd |
| 4/22 | Hart, The Concept of Law, ch. X §§ 1-3—rdng gd |
| 4/27 | Hart, The Concept of Law, ch. X §§ 4-5—rdng gd |
| 4/29 | Naticchia, “Recognition and Legitimacy: A Reply to Buchanan” (on JSTOR); Buchanan, “Rule-Governed Institutions versus Act-Consequentialism: A Rejoinder to Naticchia” (on JSTOR)—rdng gd |
| exam week | |
| 5/4 | final exam (1:30 p.m.) |