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242. Legal Reasoning. PQ: Open only to LL/Soc concentrators with consent
of instructor. This course is an introduction to legal reasoning in a
customary legal system. The first part examines the analytical conventions that
lawyers and judges purport to use. The second part examines fundamental tenets
of constitutional interpretation. Both judicial decisions and commentary are
used, although the case method is emphasized. D. Hutchinson. Autumn.
II. Letters
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222. Church and State: Marsilius's Defender of the Peace (=Fndmtl
222). When Marsilius of Padua addressed the long standing tension between
secular and ecclesiastical powers, this medieval Aristotelian not only
attempted to redefine the Church, rejecting its "plenitude of power" and
advocating ecclesiastical poverty, he also effected a radical departure from
Aristotelian politics by making the primary criterion of legitimate government
the consent of the governed. We investigate the connection between the problem
of Church and State and Marsilius's proto-republicanism. J. Macfarland.
Spring.
225. Tacitus: On Liberty and Autocracy in the Roman Empire (=ClCiv 270, Fndmtl
225, Hist 217). The substance of this course is an intensive reading of
Tacitus's Life of Agricola and Annals, which is concerned with
the Roman empire in the first century after Christ. The primary issue for
discussion is the historian's view of the tension between the noble citizen's
desire to lead a constructive public life and the compulsion to obey the
emperor. R. Saller. Spring.
234. Origins of United States Constitutional Provisions (=SocSci 212).
PQ: Consent of instructor. The provisions of the American
Constitution, evolved from colonial and British precedents and Articles of
Confederation experience, were adapted by the Founding Fathers to the
conditions of the new nation. This course concentrates on the evolution of some
of these provisions, attempting to discover the experiences epitomized by the
words, the objectives sought to be obtained, the compromises indulged, the
ambiguities unresolved. P. Kurland, R. Lerner. Autumn.
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251. The Idea of Property. J. Hart. Spring.
252. Theories of Justice from Plato to Rawls (=ClCiv 219, Class 319, Hist 219).
This course examines major texts in classical political theory and
considers them against the development of modern theories of the just society.
Readings include texts by Aristotle, Plato, Sophocles, Cicero, Montesquieu,
Rousseau, Arendt, and Rawls. D. Cohen. Spring.
265. Hobbes's Leviathan (=Fndmtl 265). This course focuses on a
close reading of the Leviathan, with emphasis divided as nearly equally
as possible among the book's several concerns: philosophical underpinnings,
political theory, and religion. C. Gray. Spring.
292. Political Philosophy: Kant (=Fndmtl 292, PolSci 315). PQ: Consent
of instructor. J. Cropsey. Winter.
293. Thucydides: Peloponnesian War (=Fndmtl 293, PolSci 219). This
course is a study of one of the classic guides to domestic and international
politics. Themes include progress and decline, justice and expediency, the role
of rhetoric in domestic and foreign policy, strategy and statesmanship, the
causes and domestic effects of war, and imperialism and alliances. N.
Tarcov. Spring.
III. Society
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213. Managing the Environment (=EnvStd 213, NCD 213, PubPol 213). PQ:
Econ 198 or higher. This course analyzes human interaction with and
intervention into the environment. Topics include resource management,
environmental and economic policy, environmental law, business initiatives, and
global environmental legislation. Also assessed are major national legislation
on Superfund, resource conservation and recovery, air quality, water quality,
hazardous chemicals, and endangered species. D. Coursey. Winter.
215. The Law of Bondage and Freedom (=Hist 415). PQ: Third-year
standing. This colloquium explores the history in America of legal
categories of bondage and freedom and the cultural, social, and political
conflicts that transformed the meaning of these terms. The course spans the
period from the American Revolution to Reconstruction. It focuses on such
themes as rights, coercion and contract, equality and difference, the
relationship between law and other systems of language and belief, market
paradigms of liberty and obligation, and the historical interplay of race and
gender in the law of bondage and freedom. A. Stanley. Winter.
223. American Constitutional History (=Hist 186). This course is an
introduction to American constitutional history from 1787 to the present, with
special emphasis on the period before 1937. It explores the relationship
between constitutional law and social change through a close, contextual
analysis of some of the primary Supreme Court opinions of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. W. Novak. Spring.
250. Early American Legal History. J. Hart. Winter.
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267. Law and Society: Early England (=Hist 234). English law before
the common law is the center of the course, but with attention to comparative
Germanic law, major sources for general Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman history,
and pre-feudal social structures. C. Gray. Autumn.
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Law, Letters, and Society Courses
I. The Introductory Course, 1995-96
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