LAWS2249 Legal Theory Study Notes

Description

All lecture notes and reading notes weeks 1-12.

TOPIC LIST
Introduction to Legal Theory
Law and Politics
Law and Art
Law and History
Law, Obligation and Power
Contemporary Legal Positivism: Hart
Contemporary Legal Positivism: Waldron
The Hart/Fuller Debate
Dworkin's Anti-Positivism
Theories of Common Law
Foucault, Power and Law
Rule of Law, Rights and Judicial Review
Theories of the Rule of Law
Mythology of the Rule of Law
Judicial Dissent and Unjust Laws
Rule of Law in the Global South
Rights Discourse and Its Critics
Minority and Group Rights
Democracy and Constitutional Rights
Can Rights-Based Judicial Review be Justified?