Description: PART I: THE NATURE OF LAWA. The Natural Law Tradition.1. Aquinas* selections from On Law, Morality and Politics. 2. Lon L. Fuller, Eight Ways to Fail to Make Laws.3. Mark Murphy,* Natural Law Jurisprudence.4. Bentham* (on Blackstone) Of Laws in General. 5. Lon Fuller, Speluncean Explorers. B. Legal Positivism.1. John Austin, A Positivism Conception of Law.2. H. L. A. Hart, Law at the Union of Primary and Secondary Laws.3. Jules Coleman,* Negative and Positive Positivism. 4. Joseph Raz,* Institutionalized Normative Systems. C. Legal Realism and Skepticism.1. Jerome Frank, Legal Realism. 2. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Path of the Law. 3. Karl Llewelyn,* from The Bramble Bush. D. Principles and Legal Interpretation 1. Ronald Dworkin, Integrity in Law. 2. Antonin Scalia, Common-Law Courts in a Civil-Law System: The Role of United States Federal Courts in Interpreting the Constitution and Laws. 3. Ronald Dworkin, Comment. E. Critical Theory. 1. Jurgen Habermas, Constitutional Democracy: A Paradoxical Union of Contradictory Principles? 2. Catharine A. MacKinnon, Difference and Dominance: On Sex Discrimination. F. Is International Law, Law?1. H. L. A. Hart,* Is International Law, Law? 2. Roper v. Simmons.* H. Is There a Moral Obligation to Obey the Law?1. Plato, Crito. 2. M. B. E. Smith, Is There a Prima Facie Obligation to Obey the Law? 3. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail. PART II: THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF LAW.A. Liberty and Authority.1. John Stuart Mill, The Liberal Argument from On Liberty.2. Arthur Ripstein,* Beyond the Harm Principle. 3. Gerald Dworkin, Paternalism. B. Equality.1. Harry Frankfurt,* Equality as a Moral Ideal. 2. Joseph Raz,* from The Morality of Freedom. 3. Kim Lane Scheppele, The Reasonable Woman. 4. State v. Rusk. 5. State v. Kelly. 6. Grutter v. Bollinger.* C. Rights.1. Joel Feinberg, The Nature and Value of Rights. 2. Jules Coleman and Jody Kraus, Rethinking the Theory of Legal Rights.3. H. L. A. Hart,* Are There Any Natural Rights?D. Privacy.1. Robert H. Bork, The Right of Privacy: The Construction of a Constitutional Time-Bomb.2. Leslie Green, Sexuality, Authenticity and Modernity. 3. Roe v. Wade. 4. Planned Parenthood of SE Pennsylvania v. Casey. 5. Lawrence v. Texas.* E. Freedom of Expression.1. Catharine Mackinnon,* Not a Moral Issue.2. Cohen v. California. 3. Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America. 4. Pruneyard Shopping Center et al. v. Robins et al.* 5. Joel Feinberg, Offensive Nuisances. F. Terrorism and Torture.1. Matt Smith,* The Moral Significance of Terrorism. 2. John Yoo,* Memorandum from John Yoo, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, and Robert J. Delahunty, Special Counsel, Office of Legal Counsel, Dept of Justice, to William J. Haynes II, General Counsel, Department of Defense, Application of Treaties and Laws to al-Qaeda and Taliban Detainees (Jan 9 2002). 3. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.*4. Alan Dershowitz,* Should the Ticking Bomb Terrorist Be Tortured? 5. Jeremy Waldron,* Torture and Positive Law: Jurisprudence for the White House. PART III: PHILOSOPHY AND THE LAW. A. General Principles of Responsibility.1. H. L. A. Hart and A. M. Honore, Causation and Responsibility. 2. Joel Feinberg,* Action and Responsibility. 3. Honore, Responsibility and Luck: The Moral Basis of Strict Liability. B. Punishment and Responsibility.1. Sanford S. Kadish and Stephen J. Schulhofer, The Case of Lady Eldons French Lace.2. David Lewis, The Punishment that Leaves Something to Chance. 3. John Gardner,* The Gist of Excuses. 4. People v. Young. 5. State v. Guido. 6. The MNaughten Rules. 7. The American Law Institute, The Insanity Defense. 8. Joel Feinberg, The Classic Debate. 9. Joel Feinberg, The Expressive Function of Punishment.10. Herbert Morris, Persons and Punishment. 11. Jeffrie Murphy and Jean Hampton,* from Forgiveness and Mercy. 12. Stephen Nathonson, Should We Execute Those Who Deser

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