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The notes here summarize the main points of a class session. They typically continue the discussion with additional material or thoughts. If you lost a handout from class, you can find it here as a pdf file.
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Notes
What Is Law?
- Handout: Natural law
- Exercises: necessary and sufficient conditions
- Austin on command and obligation
- Austin on sovereignty
- Hart’s positivism
- Legal Realism updated 4 Feb.
- Hart on legal realism
Applications
- The separation of law and morality
- Handout: Helots
- Fuller on the morality of law
- The Speluncean Explorers
- Justice Scalia’s originalism
- Handout: Scalia’s originalism
- Dworkin vs. Scalia updated 28 Feb.
- Handout: the Constitution
- Socrates on obeying the law
- Handout: Consent and Legal Obligation
- King on civil disobedience updated 9 Mar.
- Handout: Shadrach and friends
Rights
- Dworkin outline
- Dworkin on rights
- Handout: rights
- Hart’s choice theory of rights updated 21 Mar.
- Natural rights
- Feinberg on rights