03:00 PM to 04:15 PM MW
Planetary Hall 127
Section Information for Spring 2020
Law structures our lives and the world we inhabit in myriad ways. It regulates how we interact with others, how we treat our bodies, what kinds of things we can own and sell, and how we can be sanctioned if we act outside the law. In this course, we will consider a variety of philosophical questions raised by life within the American legal system.
The first part of the course will consider questions in “analytical jurisprudence” about the nature of law generally and its relation to morality. In the second part of the class we will consider philosophical questions that arise in three areas of American law: public law (constitutional law, criminal law, and administrative law), private law (property law, tort law, and contract law), and legal ethics (law of lawyers and judges). Students will be asked to recognize and reflect on the impact of law in others' lives as well as their own, and decide whether and how they plan to impact the law through their own actions.
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Credits: 3
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