Fall 2005 Course Schedule

Jurisprudence (LAW-663-001)
Anderson, J.

Meets: 07:00 PM - 09:40 PM (TH) - Room 501

Enrolled: 10 / Limit: 19

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Description

This course will explore historical evolutions in the concept of law and the art of legal interpretation. From antiquity, through modernity, and into post-modernity, jurists have struggled to articulate the nature of law and trace the sources of its authority. For some, true law is given by God, or by nature, or by the dictates of reason. It is therefore necessarily just and its authority is automatic. For others, law is just a means to social control, entirely distinct from morality. As such, Nazi statutes and the U.S. Constitution are on equal footing. Though the course will focus on theory, one of its aims will be to demonstrate just how relevant these seemingly academic questions continue to be in cases before domestic and international courts. From cannibalism on the high seas, to Nuremberg, to the challenges of terror and the Military tribunals in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, we will explore how these philosophical questions continue to be crucial to the practice of law.

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First Class Readings

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