Course Information
Instructor: Ken HimmaMeeting Times: TTh 11:30-12:20
Office: Savery 347C
Telephone: 543.5384
Office Hours: TTh 12:30-1:30 and by appointment
Text: H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law, Rev. ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994); Ronald Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978)
Course Materials
Course
Syllabus
Classical Natural Law
Theory: 1. Lecture Outline
Austin's Command Theory of
Law
: 1. Lecture Outline
Hart's Concept of
Law
: 1. Lecture Outline
Hart's Practice Theory of
Rules
: 1. Lecture Outline
Dworkin, The Model of Rules I
: 1. Lecture Outline
Study Questions for the
Midterm Exam
Dworkin, The Semantic Sting
: 1. Lecture Outline
Dworkin, Hard Cases
: 1. Lecture Outline
Study Questions for the
Second Exam
Raz, Authority, Law, and
Morality
: 1. Lecture Outline
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