The Rule of Law Seminar
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Fall 2002
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| Syllabus
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| All readings are from
the course reader, available in the bookstore. An oral
class presentation will be required for this class.
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| Week One |
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| Introduction |
No reading assignment |
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| Week Two |
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| Precedential
Authority |
Larry Alexander, "Constrained
by Precedent," 63 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1 (1989) |
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| Week Three |
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| What is Law? |
Ch. 5-6 in H.L.A. Hart, The
Concept of Law (1961) |
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| Week Four |
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Ch. 8-9 in Hart, The Concept of
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Sections 4-6 of Essay 2,
"Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals," in
H.L.A. Hart, Essays in Jurisprudence and Philosophy (1983) |
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| Week Five |
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Ch. 2-3 in Dworkin, Taking
Rights Seriously (1977) |
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| Week Six |
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Ch. 4 in Dworkin, Taking Rights
Seriously |
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| Week Seven |
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Ch. 2-3 in Lon Fuller, The
Morality of Law (1964) |
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| Week Eight |
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| The Paradox of Practical
Authority |
Pp. 3-33 in Joseph Raz, The
Authority of Law (1979) |
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| Week Nine |
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| What are Rights? |
Pp. 35-64 in Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld,
Fundamental Legal Conceptions (1923) |
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Pp. 140-45 and Ch. 8 in Neil
MacCormick, Legal Right and Social Democracy (1982) |
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| Week Ten |
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Ch. 7-8 in H.L.A.
Hart, Essays on Bentham (1982) |
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