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.

1/14  some ideas of natural law (1up PDF, 2up PDF)
1/16Aquinas sels. from Summa Theologiæ I-II qq. 90, 91, 94-97 (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)—guide
1/18Austin The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, lecture I (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)—guide
1/21  ibid., lecture I cont’d and selections from lecture V (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)—guide
1/23  ibid., selections from lecture VI (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)—guide
1/25Holmes “The Path of the Law” (on JSTOR at 1322028)—guide
1/28Hart The Concept of Law, ch. 3 §1—guide
1/30  ibid., ch. 3 §3, ch. 4 §1—guide
2/1  ibid., ch. 5—guide
2/4  ibid., ch. 6 §§1-2—guide
2/6 ppr1 due ibid., ch. 7 §1—guide
2/8  ibid., §§2-3—guide
2/11  ibid., ch. 9 §1 pp. 192f, §2, §3 (vi), note to p. 208 (on pp. 303f)—guide
2/13Dworkin “The Model of Rules,” §§I-III (on JSTOR at 1598947)—guide
2/15  ibid., §§IV-V (on JSTOR at 1598947)—guide
2/18  “Hard Cases,” §§I-II (on JSTOR at 1340249)—guide
2/20  ibid., §§III-IV.A.1 (on JSTOR at 1340249)—guide
2/22  ibid., §§IV.A.2-B.1 (on JSTOR at 1340249)—guide
2/25  ibid., §§B.2-3 (on JSTOR at 1340249)—guide
2/27  ibid., §V (on JSTOR at 1340249)—guide
3/1 test 1
spring break
3/11Hart The Concept of Law, ch. 8, §1—guide
3/13Hohfeld “Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning,” pp. 16-20, 28-44 (on JSTOR at 785533)—guide
  ibid., pp. 44-59 (on JSTOR at 785533)—guide
3/18Rawls “Two Concepts of Rules,” §§I-II (on JSTOR at 2182230)—guide
3/20  ibid., §§III-IV (on JSTOR at 2182230)—guide
3/22Mill sels. from On Liberty (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)—guide
3/25Ferzan “Justifying Self-Defense,” intro. and §I (on JSTOR at 30040369, pp. 711-728)—guide
3/27  ibid., §§II-III.B (on JSTOR at 30040369, pp. 728-739)—guide
3/29  ibid., §§III.C-IV (on JSTOR at 30040369, pp. 739-749)—guide
4/1Fletcher “Fairness and Utility in Tort Theory,” §§I-II.A (on JSTOR at 1339623, pp. 537-551)—guide
4/3  ibid., §§II.B-III (on JSTOR at 1339623, pp. 551-564)—guide
4/5  ibid., §§IV-V (on JSTOR at 1339623, pp. 564-573)—guide
4/8Shiffrin & Shavell Shiffrin, “‘Could’ Breach of Contract Be Immoral?” intro. and §I (on JSTOR at 40380343, pp. 1551-1563)—guide
4/10 Shiffrin, §II and concl. (on JSTOR at 40380343, pp. 1563-1568); and Shavell, “Why Breach of Contract May Not Be Immoral Given the Incompleteness of Contracts,” intro. and §I (on JSTOR at 40380344, pp. 1569-1575)—guide
4/12ppr2 due Shavell, §§II and concl. (on JSTOR at 40380344, pp. 1575-1581)—guide
4/15Grotius sels. from Grotius on the Rights of War and Peace: An Abridged Translation. (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)—guide
4/17Hart The Concept of Law, ch. X §§ 1-3—guide
4/19  ibid., §§ 4-5—guide
4/22Altman & Wellman “A Defense of International Criminal Law,” intro. and §§I-III (on JSTOR at 10.1086/422895, pp. 35-51)—guide
4/24 ibid., §§IV-V (on JSTOR at 10.1086/422895, pp. 51-62)—guide
4/26  ibid., §§VI-VII (on JSTOR at 10.1086/422895, pp. 62-67)—guide
5/1 test 2 (Wed., 9:00 a.m.)