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1(2/27)

What is Law? I

Hart and Fuller Debate

• H.L.A. Hart, Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals, 71 (4) Harvard Law Review, 593, 615-621 (1958).


• Lon L. Fuller, Positivism and Fidelity to Law—A Reply to Professor Hart, 71 (4) Harvard Law Review 630, 648-661 (1958).

2

4-5

2(3/12)

What is Law? II

Hart and Dworkin Debate: Ronald Dworkin, The Model of Rules I, II

• Ronald Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously, Ch.2-3

2

4-5

3(3/26)

What is Law? III

Ronald Dworkin: Law’s Empire I

• Ronald Dworkin, Law’s Empire, Ch.1-3

2

4-5

4(4/9)

What is Law? IV

Ronald Dworkin: Law’s Empire II

• Ronald Dworkin, Law’s Empire, Ch. 6-7

2

4-5

5(4/23)

What is a Right?

Ronald Dworkin: Right vs. Common Interests

• Ronald Dworkin, Do we have a right to pornography? in Matters of Principle


• Robert George, Making Men Moral, Ch.3

2

4-5

6(5/7)

Judicial Review I:

Majoritarianism vs Rights

Ronald Dworkin’s Moral Reading vs Jeremy Waldron’s Case against Judicial Review

• Ronald Dworkin, The Moral Reading and the Majoritarian Premise, in Freedom’s Law, 1-38 (1996).


• Jeremy Waldron, The Core of the Case against Judicial Review, 115(6) Yale Law Journal 1346-1406 (2006).

2

4-5

7(5/21)

Judicial Review II: Judicial virtue

McConnell’s objection to Dworkin’s Moral Reading

• Michael McConnell, The importance of humility in judicial review, 65 Fordham L. Rev 1269 (1996-7_

2

4-5

8(6/4)

Civil Disobedience

Dworkin on Civil Disobedience

• John Rawls, The Justification of Civil Disobedience

• Ronald Dworkin, Civil Disobedience and Nuclear Protests


• Joseph Raz, A Right to Dissent Civil Disobedience

2

4-5

9(6/18)

Hate Speech

Dworkin vs Waldron on hate speech

• Ronald Dworkin, Foreword, in Extreme Speech and Democracy

• Jeremy Waldron, Ronald Dworkin and the Legitimacy argument, in the Harm in Hate Speech, ch.7

2

4-5