ClassInfo - Spring 2020 Philosophy Classes

Spring 2020 | PHIL 5415 Section 001: Philosophy of Law (53488)

Instructor(s): Brian Bix
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Meets With:: LAW 6615 Section 001
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/21/2020 - 04/27/2020

Mon, Wed, Fri 01:25PM - 02:20PM

UMTC, West Bank

Walter F. Mondale Hall 5
Enrollment Status:: Open (6 of 20 seats filled)
Also Offered:: (Tentative) Spring 2025
(Tentative) Spring 2024
(Tentative) Spring 2023
(Tentative) Spring 2022

Course Catalog Description:: Analytical accounts of law and legal obligation. prereq: 1003 or 1004 or 3302 or social science major or instr consent
Class Description:: This course will be a general survey course of American legal movements and conceptions of the law. The course will examine foundational legal questions: What is law, why are we obligated to follow laws, and when if ever, are we not? What is the Rule of Law? When if ever can we condemn a law as unjust and, if so, must we obey it? We will also examine how different legal movements have attempted to answer these questions from the beginnings of "legal science" and formalism; to the Legal Realists and the responses to them; to the more recent movement to unite law with moral philosophy; to Critical Legal Studies; and responses to the Critical Studies movement. We will compare and contrast these movements with basic conceptions of the law-positivism and natural rights.
Grading:: 50% term paper, 50% final exam
Exam Format:: in-class exam, essay questions
Class Format:: lecture and discussion
Workload:: about 30 pages of reading per class
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53488/1203
Past Syllabi:: http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/bixxx002_PHIL5415_Spring2017.pdf (Spring 2017)
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 7 November 2016

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