Course Description

Syllabus

Electronic Reserves

Writing Handout

Handout #1: Austin and the Command Theory

Handout #2: Hart's Model of Rules and Legal Realism

Handout #3: Legal Interpretation

Handout #4: Constructive Interpretation, Natural Law, and Legal Positivism

Handout #5: Judicial Review in a Constitutional Democracy

Handout #6: Punishment

Handout #7: Millian Principles and the Limits of the Law

Handout #8: Revisiting Mill's Categories

Paper #1

Paper #2

Exam Study Questions

Links

• Larry Solum's Legal Theory Blog
• Brian Bix, "John Austin"
• David Brink, "Judges as Umpires" (The Roberts Confirmation)
• Federalist #78
• The U.S. Constitution

last modified 3-11-08