Phi 213
Fall 2013
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In the bookstore:

H. L A. Hart, The Concept of Law (Oxford University Press, 2012)—the current edition is the 3rd, but any edition will do

On JSTOR:

Andrew Altman and Christopher Heath Wellman, “A Defense of International Criminal Law,” Ethics, vol. 115 (2004), pp. 35-67 (on JSTOR at 10.1086/422895)

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)

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

Steven Shavell, “Why Breach of Contract May Not Be Immoral Given the Incompleteness of Contracts,” Michigan Law Review, vol. 107 (2009), pp. 1569-1581 (on JSTOR at 40380344)

Seana Shiffrin, “‘Could’ Breach of Contract Be Immoral?” Michigan Law Review, vol. 107 (2009), pp. 1551-1568 (on JSTOR at 40380343)

In PDF format (to be available on the website and Moodle):

“Some ideas of natural law,” selections from Aristotle, Cicero, the Roman jurists, and Aquinas (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)

John Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined

lecture I (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF),

selections from lecture V (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF), and selections from lecture VI (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)

Hugo Grotius, selections from Grotius on the Rights of War and Peace: An Abridged Translation.

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