Robert Lane, Ph.D.

 
Philosophy of Law
PHIL 4110 | Spring 2007
MWF 2:30-3:25pm | Pafford 206

New! Test 3 Study Guide

Syllabus

Course Schedule

Writing a Philosophy Paper

NEW! Term Paper Instructions for this class

Test & Paper Archive

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   F: 10:10-11:10am; 12:15-2:15pm
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Lecture Notes

April 20: Rights 6: Euthanasia

April 18: Rights 5: Abortion

April 16: Rights 4: Privacy, Due Process, and Bork

April 13: Rights 3: Rorty and Glendon on "Rights Talk"

April 11: Rights 2: Feinberg and Nowheresville

April 9: Rights 1: MacCallum's Analysis; Roe v. Wade

April 6: Freedom 6: Freedom of Religion: Free Exercise

April 4: Freedom 5: Freedom of Religion: Establishment

March 30: Freedom 4: Types of Controversial Speech; Scanlon on Free Speech

March 26: Freedom 3: Mill on Freedom of Speech

March 16: Freedom 2: Berlin on Positive and Negative Liberty

March 14: Freedom 1: Positive/Negative, Hospers, Bergmann


March 2: Dworkin's Constructivism

March 2: Legal Realism: Lochner v. New York and Buck v. Bell

February 28: Legal Realism: Cardozo and Cohen

February 26: Legal Realism: Holmes

February 23: Legal Formalism: Langdell

February 21: Legal Positivism, Natural Law, and War Crimes

February 19: Legal Positivism: Austin and Fuller

February 16: Natural Law Theory 2: Fuller

February 14: Natural Law Theory 1: Aquinas

February 12: no lecture notes; we discussed the term paper assignment


February 5: Theories of Law 2: Speluncean Explorerers

February 2: Theories of Law 1: Speluncean Explorerers

January 31: International Law 2: Law

January 29: International Law 1

January 26: Civil vs. Common, Inquisitorial vs. Adversarial

January 24: Obedience to the Law: Rawls 2

January 22: Obedience to the Law: Rawls 1

January 19: Obedience to the Law: Socrates 2

January 17: Obedience to the Law: Socrates 1

January 12: The Absence of Law: Turnbull

January 10: The Absence of Law: Hobbes

January 8: Introduction to the Philosophy of Law



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