Phi 213 Sp13
Syllabus: contact info, texts, grading, 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.

1/14  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.)