Jurisprudence Course

What is the line between tactical/permissible fouling and cheating?

Is the point of sport just amusement, or should we be pluralists about the goals of sporting activities

WTF is the Philosophy of Sports? WTF is the Jurisprudence of Sports? And why lawyers should care.

1) Interpretive Methodologies; 2) The Standard Picture; 3) Economy of Trust

1) Solving the puzzles; 2) Why I’m not an Inclusive Legal Positivist, Part II; 3) Logic of Planning

1) Planning; 2) Law as a Planning Organization; 3) The Moral Aim Thesis

1) Raz on Authority; 2) The Argument from Authority; 3) The Practical Difference Thesis

1) Concept vs Conception; 2) Conventionalism; 3) Hercules

1) Recap; 2) Theoretical Disagreements; 3) Constructive Interpretation

1) Justice in Law; 2) Minimum content of the Natural Law; 3) Normative Legal Positivism

1) Formalism and open texture; 2) Rule skepticism; 3) Fuller’s critique

1) Rules vs Principles; 2) Principles in hard cases; 3) Exclusive vs Inclusive Legal Positivism

1) Hart’s solution to Chicken-Egg Puzzle and Hume’s Challenge; 2) Are Social Rules Social Practices?; 3) Expressing Yourself Legally (plus: Roast Chicken recipe)

1) Intro to Rule of Recognition; 2) Properties of the Rule of Recognition; 3) The Rule of Recognition Rules

1) Duty, Command, Custom; 2) Sovereignty as habit; 3) Internal Point of View

1) Power conferring rules; 2) Nullities as Sanctions; 3) Kelsen’s theory

1) How is legal authority possible; 2) Hume’s Puzzle; 3) Austin’s theory of law

1) What is “What is law”? 2) Legal Facts 3) Positivism vs Natural Law

Introduction