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.
| 1/18 | some ideas of natural law (handout) |
| 1/20 | Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, lecture I and selections from lecture V (lecture 1 and 5 ho)—rdng gd |
| 1/25 | Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, selections from lecture VI (lecture 6 ho)—rdng gd |
| 1/27 | Holmes, “The Path of the Law” (on JSTOR)—rdng gd |
| 2/1 | Hart, The Concept of Law, ch. 3 §§1, 3; ch. 4 §1—rdng gd |
| 2/3 | Hart, The Concept of Law, ch. 5—rdng gd |
| 2/8 | Hart, The Concept of Law, ch. 6 §§1-2—rdng gd |
| 2/10 | Hart, The Concept of Law, ch. 7 §§1-3—rdng gd (ppr 1 due) |
| 2/15 | Hart, The Concept of Law, ch. 9 §1 pp. 192f, §2, §3 (vi), note to p. 208 (on pp. 303f)—rdng gd |
| 2/17 | R. Dworkin, “The Model of Rules,” (on JSTOR)—rdng gd |
| 2/22 | R. Dworkin, “Hard Cases,” §§I-III (on JSTOR)—rdng gd |
| 2/24 | R. Dworkin, “Hard Cases,” §§IV.A-IV.B.2 (on JSTOR)—rdng gd |
| 3/1 | R. Dworkin, “Hard Cases,” §§IV.B.3-V (on JSTOR)—rdng gd |
| 3/3 | midterm exam |
| spring break | |
| 3/15 | Hart, The Concept of Law, ch. 8, §1—rdng gd |
| 3/17 | Hohfeld, “Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning,” pp. 16-20, 28-59 (on JSTOR)—rdng gd |
| 3/22 | Rawls, “Two Concepts of Rules” (on JSTOR)—rdng gd |
| 3/24 | Mill, sels. from On Liberty (handout)—rdng gd |
| 3/29 | Ferzan, “Justifying Self-Defense,” intro. and §§I-II (on JSTOR, pp. 711-732)—rdng gd |
| 3/31 | Ferzan, “Justifying Self-Defense,” §§III-IV (on JSTOR, pp. 732-749)—rdng gd |
| 4/5 | Fletcher, “Fairness and Utility in Tort Theory,” §§I-II (on JSTOR, pp. 537-556)—rdng gd |
| 4/7 | Fletcher, “Fairness and Utility in Tort Theory,” §§III-V (on JSTOR, pp. 556-573)—rdng gd |
| 4/12 | Craswell, “Contract Law, Default Rules, and the Philosophy of Promising,” intro. and §§I-IIA (on JSTOR, pp. 489-511)—rdng gd |
| 4/14 | Craswell, “Contract Law, Default Rules, and the Philosophy of Promising,” §§IIB-III and concl. (on JSTOR, pp. 511-529)—rdng gd (ppr 2 due) |
| 4/19 | Grotius, sels. from Grotius on the Rights of War and Peace: An Abridged Translation. (handout)—rdng gd |
| 4/21 | Hart, The Concept of Law, ch. X §§ 1-3—rdng gd |
| 4/26 | Hart, The Concept of Law, ch. X §§ 4-5—rdng gd |
| 4/28 | 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 |
| Fri. of exam week | |
| 5/6 | final exam (1:30 p.m.) |