Phi 213 Sp12

Syllabus: contact info, texts, requirements, calendar
 
 

In the bookstore:

H. L A. Hart, The Concept of Law (Oxford University Press, 1997).

On JSTOR:

Allen Buchanan, “Recognitional Legitimacy and the State System,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 28 (1999), pp. 46-78 (on JSTOR at 2672825)

———, “Rule-Governed Institutions versus Act-Consequentialism: A Rejoinder to Naticchia,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 28 (1999), pp. 258-270 (on JSTOR at 2672859)

Richard Craswell, “Contract Law, Default Rules, and the Philosophy of Promising,” Michigan Law Review, vol. 88 (1989), pp. 489-529 (on JSTOR at 1289110)

Ronald Dworkin, “The Model of Rules,” The University of Chicago Law Review, vol. 35 (1967), pp. 14-46 (on JSTOR at 1598947)

Ronald Dworkin, “Hard Cases,” Harvard Law Review, vol. 88 (1975), pp. 1057-1109 (on JSTOR at 1340249)

Kimberly Kessler Ferzan, “Justifying Self-Defense,” Law and Philosophy, vol. 24 (2005), pp. 711-749 (on JSTOR at 30040369)

George Fletcher, “Fairness and Utility in Tort Theory,” Harvard Law Review, vol. 85 (1972), pp. 537-573 (on JSTOR at 1339623)

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 at 785533)

Oliver Wendall Holmes, Jr., “The Path of the Law,” Harvard Law Review, vol. 10 (1897), pp. 457-478 (on JSTOR at 1322028)

Chris Naticchia, “Recognition and Legitimacy: A Reply to Buchanan,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 28 (1999), pp. 242-257 (on JSTOR at 2672858)

John Rawls, “Two Concepts of Rules,” The Philosophical Review, vol. 64 (1955), pp. 3-32 (on JSTOR at 2182230)

In PDF format (on the website and Moodle):

“Some ideas of natural law,” selections from Aristotle, Cicero, and the Roman jurists (PDF)

Thomas Aquinas, selections from Summa Theologiae, pt. I-II, qq. 90, 91, 94-97 (1up PDF, 2up PDF)

John Austin, (i) lecture I (1up PDF, 2up PDF) and selections from lecture V (1up PDF, 2up PDF) and (ii) selections from lecture VI (1up PDF, 2up PDF) of The Province of Jurisprudence Determined

Hugo Grotius, selections from Grotius on the Rights of War and Peace: An Abridged Translation. (1up PDF, 2up PDF)

John Stuart Mill, selections from On Liberty (1up PDF, 2up PDF)