Phi 213
Fall 2013
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Calendar. The assignments below are approximate and tentative. Sometimes a reading-guide handout will specify the details of an assignment, and it may include passages that are part of your assignment. Boxed dates are dates of tests or default due dates for papers (the latter are links to paper assignments when bold).

1/20  some ideas of natural law—handout (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)
1/22Austin The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, lecture I—handout (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)guide
1/24  no class
1/27  ibid., lecture I cont’d and selections from lecture V—handout (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)guide
1/29  ibid., selections from lecture VI—handout (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)guide
1/31Holmes “The Path of the Law”—on JSTOR at 1322028guide
2/3Hart The Concept of Law, ch. 3 §1—guide
2/5  ibid., ch. 3 §3, ch. 4 §1—guide
2/7  ibid., ch. 5—guide
2/10  ibid., ch. 6 §§1-2—guide
2/12  ibid., ch. 7 §1—guide
2/14  ibid., §§2-3—guide
2/17  ibid., ch. 9 §1 pp. 192f, §2, §3 (vi), note to p. 208 (on pp. 303f)—guide
2/19Dworkin “The Model of Rules,” §§I-III—on JSTOR at 1598947guide
2/21  ibid., §§IV-V—on JSTOR at 1598947guide
2/24  “Hard Cases,” §§I-II—on JSTOR at 1340249guide
2/26  ibid., §§III-IV.A.1—on JSTOR at 1340249guide
2/28  ibid., §§IV.A.2-B.1—on JSTOR at 1340249guide
3/3  ibid., §§B.2-3—on JSTOR at 1340249guide
3/5  ibid., §V—on JSTOR at 1340249guide
3/7test 1
spring break
3/17Hrt The Concept of Law, ch. 8, §1—guide
3/19Hohfeld “Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning,” pp. 16-20, 28-44—on JSTOR at 785533guide
3/21  ibid., pp. 44-59—on JSTOR at 785533guide
3/24Rawls “Two Concepts of Rules,” §§I-II—on JSTOR at 2182230guide
3/26  ibid., §§III-IV—on JSTOR at 2182230guide
3/28Mill sels. from On Liberty—handout (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)guide
3/31Ferzan “Justifying Self-Defense,” intro. and §I (pp. 711-728)—on JSTOR at 30040369guide
4/2  ibid., §§II-III.B (pp. 728-739)—on JSTOR at 30040369guide
4/4  ibid., §§III.C-IV (pp. 739-749)—on JSTOR at 30040369guide
4/7Fletcher “Fairness and Utility in Tort Theory,” §§I-II.A (pp. 537-551)—on JSTOR at 1339623guide
4/9  ibid., §§II.B-III (pp. 551-564)—on JSTOR at 1339623guide
4/11  ibid., §§IV-V (pp. 564-573)—on JSTOR at 1339623guide
4/14Shiffrin & Shavell Shiffrin, “‘Could’ Breach of Contract Be Immoral?” intro. and §I (pp. 1551-1563)—on JSTOR at 40380343guide
4/16 Shiffrin, §II and concl. (pp. 1563-1568)—on JSTOR at 40380343; and Shavell, “Why Breach of Contract May Not Be Immoral Given the Incompleteness of Contracts,” intro. and §I (pp. 1569-1575)—on JSTOR at 40380344guide
4/18  Shavell, §II and concl. (pp. 1575-1581)—on JSTOR at 40380344guide
4/21Grotius sels. from Grotius on the Rights of War and Peace: An Abridged Translation.—handout (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)guide
4/23Hrt The Concept of Law, ch. X §§ 1-3—guide
4/25  ibid., §§ 4-5—guide
4/28Altman & Wellman “A Defense of International Criminal Law,” intro. and §§I-III (pp. 35-51)—on JSTOR at 10.1086/422895guide
4/30 ibid., §§IV-V (pp. 51-62)—on JSTOR at 10.1086/422895guide
5/2  ibid., §§VI-VII (pp. 62-67)—on JSTOR at 10.1086/422895guide
5/5 test 2 (Mon., 1:30 p.m.)