Listed in: Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, as LJST-110
Formerly listed as: LJST-10
Adam Sitze (Section 01)
This course provides an introduction to the primary texts and central problems of modern legal theory. Through close study of the field’s founding and pivotal works, we will weigh and consider various ways to think about questions that every study, practice, and institution of law eventually encounters. These questions concern law’s very nature or essence; its relations to knowledge, morality, religion, and the passions; the status of its language and interpretations; its relation to force and the threat of force; and its place and function in the preservation and transformation of political, social and economic order.
Limited to 40 students. Spring semester. Professor Sitze.
If Overenrolled: Priority given to LJST majors.
Cost: $2.00 ?
Section 01
Tu 01:00 PM - 02:20 PM OCTA 200
Th 01:00 PM - 02:20 PM OCTA 200
This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.
ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
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On the Citizen | Thomas Hobbes | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
Two Treaties of Government | John Locke | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals | Allen Wood | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
The Basics of Writing of John Stuart Mill | J.S. Mill | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.