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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Law |
| Grao en Dereito |
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| Philosophy of Law |
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| Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Philosophy of Law | Code | 612G01026 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Third | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. Philosophy of Law as Understanding and Critique of Contemporary Law | 1. Thinking of law. Methodological approach. 2. The dominant legal thought. Legal positivism. |
| 2. Legal Positivism and Legal Modernity | 1. Th. Hobbes: the origins of Legal Positivism. 2. Codification. Code Napoleon. 3. J. Bentham. 4. Thibaut and Savigny: Romanticism or Historicism? 5. J. Austin’s Analytical Jurisprudence. 6. Legal Positivism and Exegesis School. 7. XIXth Century’s Jurisprudence of Concepts and Jurisprudence of Interests. 8. H. Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law. |
| 3. Interpretation and Adjudication. Critical Assessment | 1. Legal positivism in action. Interpretation and adjudication. 2. Scientificism as an ideology and the valorative character of legal science. |
| 4. Western Legal System’s since 1945. Constitutionalization and Globalization | 1. Constitutionalization and Neo-constitutionalism: beyond formalism. 2. Globalization: beyond the State. |
| 5. Overcoming Legal Positivism | 1. Theories of argumentation. 2. Critical theories. 3. Inclusive legal positivism. |
| 6. Reframing Philosophy of Law for the XXIst Century | 1. Hermeneutics. 2. Ontology. 3. Justice. |
| 7. Justice and Rights | 1. Doing the right thing. 2. The great happiness principle. Utilitarianism. 3. Do we own ourselves? Libertarianism. 4. Hired help. Markets and morals. 5. What matters is the motive. Immanuel Kant. 6. The case for equality. John Rawls. 7. Arguing affirmative action. 8. Who deserves what? Aristotle. 9. What do we owe one another? Dilemmas of loyalty. 10. Justice and the common good. |
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