LAWS360-14S2 (C) Semester Two 2014

Jurisprudence

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2014
End Date: Sunday, 16 November 2014
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 25 July 2014
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 10 October 2014

Description

The course involves a study of various modern theories about law from both a descriptive and critical perspective.

The course will describe and critique various theories about law which attempt to explain and legitimise law or alternatively to deconstruct and re-imagine law.
 
The course will begin with an introduction to the classical natural law approach to law and contrast it with modern positivist approaches.  It will then consider the responses of natural law theorists to the positivist challenge.

The second half of the course will consider the political ideology of Liberalism within which the Anglo-American legal tradition operates and the responses to it.  In doing so it will then consider such theories about law as Legal Realism, Idealism, Critical Legal Studies, Law and Economics, Postmodernism and Feminist Legal Theory.

Learning Outcomes

The aim of the course is to enable students to critically evaluate the role of law in society and to contemplate alternative legal constructions.

Prerequisites

(i) LAWS101; and (ii) LAWS110

Restrictions

LAWS302

Co-requisites

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

David Round

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Essay One 29 Sep 2014 30%
Final Examination 70%


The assessment for this course will be advised in the first week of term.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $709.00

International fee $3,388.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Faculty of Law .

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