General Description:
This course addresses a number of fundamental questions, such as: What is law?
What should it be? How is it generated? Our readings consist mostly of articles from leading modern/postmodern schools of thought including legal formalism, legal realism, interpretive theory, law and economics, feminist jurisprudence, critical legal studies, law and literature, and legal aesthetics.
Select Term:
LAWS 7128-001
Instructor(s):
Pierre Schlag
Credits: 2
Meeting Times & Locations:
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Thu |
1:00 PM - 2:40 PM |
WOLF 411 |
First Assignment: For our first class, please read pages 809-821 in Felix Cohen, Transcendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach 39 Colum. L. Rev. 809 (1935). It's available on my twen site and on hein online.
Try to figure out what Cohen is so upset about (he is) and why. See you on Thursday.
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