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Reading
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Topic
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1/16
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No Reading
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Introduction to
the Course
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1/18
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Web Reading
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Lon Fuller, The Case
of the Speluncean Explorers
or
PDF File
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1/23
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Web Reading
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H.L.A. Hart,
Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals
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1/25
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Web Reading
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Lon Fuller, Positivism
and Fidelity to Law--A Reply to Professor Hart
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1/30
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Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (NE) Books I & II
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NE: pp. viii-xviiii, 3-49
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2/1
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Books III & IV, Book VI Chs, v, vii, vii
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NE: pp. 50-111, 150-51, 152-54, 154-156
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2/6
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Book V
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NE: pp. 112-143
Optional reading:
Richard Kraut,
“Justice in the Nicomachean Ethics” from Aristotle: Political Philosophy.
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2/8
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Web Reading
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Solum,
Natural Justice &
Solum,
Virtue Jurisprudence: A Virtue-Centered Theory of Judging (following
the link to download the papers)
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2/13
Special Event
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Web Reading
All classes were
cancelled due to snow. The reading
assignment remains. See assgiment
for 2/20.
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Procedural
Justice (follow the link to download the paper)
Read pp. 182-191 & pp. 237-273.
Note: the link was fixed on
Saturday, February 10, 2007.
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2/15
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No reading.
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No class.
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2/20
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Web Reading
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Discussion of Van Arsdell lecutre & “Procedural
Justice” (Pages assigned on 2/13).
Kant, Groundwork of
the Metaphysics of Morals
Read Chapter One, pp. 1-13.
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2/22
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Web Reading
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Kant, Groundwork of
the Metaphysics of Morals
Read Chapters Two & Three, pp. 13-50
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2/27
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Web Reading
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Locke, Second Treatise of Government
Chapter
2
Chapter
5
Chapter
7
Chapter
8
Chapter
9
Chapter
11
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3/1
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Rawls, Political Liberalism, Lecture One
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Rawls, PL, pp. 1-46
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3/6
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Rawls, Political Liberalism, Lecutres Four and Six
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Rawls, PL, pp. 131-172 & pp. 212-254
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3/8
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No new reading
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Continue discussion of Rawls
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3/13
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Web Reading
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Public
Legal Reason pp. 1450-1485.
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3/15
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No reading.
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No class, except for students taking the midterm.
The midterm examination is only for students for whom
a midterm is required (undergraduate freshman only).
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3/27
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Web reading
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Bentham,
Principles of Morals and Legislation, Chapters 1, 2, pp. 14-26,
Chapter 4, 5, pp. 31-41.
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3/29
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No Class
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4/3
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Web Reading
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Bentham,
Principles of Morals and Legislation, Chapter 7, pp. 61-68, Chapters
13, 14, pp. 134-146.
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4/5
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Web Reading
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Kaplow &
Shavell, Fairness versus Welfare, pp. 3-36.
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4/10
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Web Reading
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Kaplow &
Shavell, Fairness versus Welfare, pp. 36-62.
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4/12
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Web Reading
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Kaplow &
Shavell, Any Nonwelfarist Method, pp. 1-6.
(This may be tough going. Scan, even if you find this article
difficult.)
Public
Legal Reason pp. 1485-1500.
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4/17
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Web Reading
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Ronald
Dworkin, Hard Cases, pp. 1-20.
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4/19
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Web Reading
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Ronald
Dworkin, Hard Cases, pp. 20-40; McPherson
v. Buick Motor Co.
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4/24
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Web Reading
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Pluralism
and Public Legal Reason, pp. 7-23 & The
Supreme Court in Bondage: Constitutional Stare Decisis, Legal Formalism,
and the Future of Unenumerated Rights, pp. 176-186
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4/26
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No reading
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Conclusion, Discussion of Take Home, Exam Distributed.
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