Jurisprudence

Instructor:
Jim M. Donovan
845
Credits:
3.0
001
Building:
Law Building
Room:
Rm.297
Semester:
Spring 2025
Start Date:
End Date:
Name:
Jurisprudence
Class Type:
LEC
1:00 pm
1:50 pm
Days:
MTR

This course presents a survey of the various schools of legal philosophical thought, with an emphasis on exploring how these intellectual "value systems" necessarily inform judges' decisions, and how they might therefore influence one's choice of legal argument in a given case. The course will include readings from formalism, legal positivism, process theory, legal realism, law and economics, critical legal studies, feminist legal theory, and critical race theory, among others.

This course presents a survey of the various schools of legal philosophical thought, with an emphasis on exploring how these intellectual "value systems" necessarily inform judges' decisions, and how they might therefore influence one's choice of legal argument in a given case. The course will include readings from formalism, legal positivism, process theory, legal realism, law and economics, critical legal studies, feminist legal theory, and critical race theory, among others.

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