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Allen Buchanan, “Rule-Governed Institutions versus Act-Consequentialism: A Rejoinder to Naticchia,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 28 (1999), pp. 258-270 (on JSTOR)

Richard Craswell, “Contract Law, Default Rules, and the Philosophy of Promising,” Michigan Law Review, vol. 88 (1989), pp. 489-529 (on JSTOR)

Ronald Dworkin, “The Model of Rules,” The University of Chicago Law Review, vol. 35 (1967), pp. 14-46 (on JSTOR)

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Kimberly Kessler Ferzan, “Justifying Self-Defense,” Law and Philosophy, vol. 24 (2005), pp. 711-749 (on JSTOR)

George Fletcher, “Fairness and Utility in Tort Theory,” Harvard Law Review, vol. 85 (1972), pp. 537-573 (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)

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John Austin, lecture I and selections from lecture V (lecture 1 and 5 ho) and from lecture 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)