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).

1/18  some ideas of natural law—handout (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)
1/20Austin The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, lecture I (pp. 86-97; ho pp. 1-11)—lect. I handout (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)—guide
1/22  ibid., lecture I cont’d (pp. 98-103; ho pp. 11-16) and selections from lecture V—lect. V handout (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)—guide
1/25  ibid., selections from lecture VI—lect. VI handout (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)—guide
1/27Holmes “The Path of the Law”—on JSTOR at 1322028—guide
1/29  no class
2/1Hart The Concept of Law, ch. 3 §1—guide
2/3  ibid., ch. 3 §3, ch. 4 §1—guide
2/5  ibid., ch. 5—guide
2/8  ibid., ch. 6 §§1-2—guide
2/10  ibid., ch. 7 §1—guide (paper 1 due)
2/12  ibid., §§2-3—guide
2/15  no class
2/17  no class
2/19Dworkin “The Model of Rules,”—on JSTOR at 1598947—guide
2/22  “Hard Cases,” §§I-II—on JSTOR at 1340249—guide
2/24  ibid., §§III-IV.A.1—on JSTOR at 1340249—guide
2/26  ibid., §§IV.A.2-B.1—on JSTOR at 1340249—guide
2/29  ibid., §§IV.B.2-3—on JSTOR at 1340249—guide
3/2  ibid., §V—on JSTOR at 1340249—guide
3/4Hart The Concept of Law, ch. 9 §1 pp. 192f, §2, §3 (vi), note to p. 208 (on pp. 303f)—guide
spring break
3/14Hohfeld “Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning,” pp. 16-20, 28-44—on JSTOR at 785533—guide
3/16  ibid., pp. 44-59—on JSTOR at 785533—guide
3/18 test 1
3/21Rawls “Two Concepts of Rules,” §§I-II—on JSTOR at 2182230—guide
3/23  ibid., §§III-IV—on JSTOR at 2182230—guide
3/25Mill sels. from On Liberty—handout (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)—guide
3/28Ferzan “Justifying Self-Defense,” intro. and §I (pp. 711-728)—on JSTOR at 30040369—guide
3/30  ibid., §§II-III.B (pp. 728-739)—on JSTOR at 30040369—guide
4/1  ibid., §§III.C-IV (pp. 739-749)—on JSTOR at 30040369—guide
4/4Fletcher “Fairness and Utility in Tort Theory,” §§I-II.A (pp. 537-551)—on JSTOR at 1339623—guide
4/6  ibid., §§II.B-III (pp. 551-564)—on JSTOR at 1339623—guide
4/8  ibid., §§IV-V (pp. 564-573)—on JSTOR at 1339623—guide
4/11Shiffrin & Shavell Shiffrin, “‘Could’ Breach of Contract Be Immoral?” intro. and §I (pp. 1551-1563)—on JSTOR at 40380343—guide
4/13 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 40380344—guide (paper 2 due)
4/15  Shavell, §II and concl. (pp. 1575-1581)—on JSTOR at 40380344—guide
4/18Grotius sels. from Grotius on the Rights of War and Peace: An Abridged Translation.—handout (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)—guide
4/20Hrt The Concept of Law, ch. 10 §§ 1-3—guide
4/22  ibid., §§ 4-5—guide
4/25Altman & Wellman “A Defense of International Criminal Law,” intro. and §§I-III (pp. 35-51)—on JSTOR at 10.1086/422895—guide
4/27 ibid., §§IV-V (pp. 51-62)—on JSTOR at 10.1086/422895—guide
4/29  ibid., §§VI-VII (pp. 62-67)—on JSTOR at 10.1086/422895—guide
5/5 test 2 (Thurs., 9:00 a.m.)