Sections offered FALL 2021:
#42633 |
GREG CANADA |
TR 1:10-2:25pm |
BH 215 |
CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd S&H credit; COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
Above class meets In Person. For more information visit https://covid.iu.edu/learning-modes/index.html
Jurisprudence — philosophy of law – investigates the nature of law and its role in society. This course will offer a survey of the fundamental questions in jurisprudence, with particular focus on how judges decide or should decide cases. What makes something a legal rule? Do legal rules and some necessary connection between law and morality? Is judicial decision-making really different from political decision-making? These and other important questions will guide individual research and animate class conversation. Most course readings will be from 20th- and 21st-century writers: legal positivists, natural law theorists, legal realists, and critical theorists. Some attention, however, will be given to key 19th-century legal thinkers John Austin, William Blackstone, and Jeremy Bentham. Some of the reading will be challenging, but no prior experience with law or philosophy will be assumed.