PHILOSOPHY OF LAW |
An examination of topics in jurisprudence such as the concepts of a law and of a legal system, the legal positivist, legal realist and Natural Law theories of law, the nature of the relationship between law and morality, civil disobedience, theories of rights, freedom of speech and pornography, the death penalty, the different forms of legal liability, and the inclusion of strict liability in criminal law. Authors include St. Thomas Aquinas, John Stuart Mill, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Rawls, H. L. A. Hart, Lon Fuller, Patrick Devlin, Ronald Dworkin, Judith Jarvis Thomson and Susan Estrich.
Devlin and the Enforcement of Morality
The Right to Privacy and Abortion
Criminal Law, Mens Rea and the Insanity Defense
Punishment and the Death Penalty