Lecture 1: Introduction: Anarchy or Obligation?
Raz, The Authority of Law (Oxford 1979), Ch 12.

Lecture 2: Law as a Social Fact

Hart, The Concept of Law , chapters 5 - 6.

Lecture 3: Law & Morality

Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (London 1977), ch. 2 (‘Model of Rules I’).
Raz, Authority, Law, and Morality, Chapter 10 in Ethics in the Public Domain.

Lecture 4: Law and Rights
Joseph Raz, The Morality of Freedom, Ch: 7 The Nature of Rights.

Lecture 5: Reading Week

Lecture 6: Liberty and Justice
John Gray, Hayek on Liberty, Chapter 3 “The Law of Liberty,” pp 56 - 78
Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, Mass. 1971), sections 2 - 4, 6 - 11

Lecture 7: Solidarity and the Limitations of Liberalism
Kymlicka, Contemporary Political Philosophy, Chapter 6
Michael J. Sandel, “The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self”, Political Theory, 1984: 12, pp. 81- 96 .

Lecture 8: Liberalism and Its Discontents
Bielefeldt, ‘Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism’ in Dyzenhaus (ed) pp. 23 - 36.

Lecture 9: Global Justice & Human Rights
Tom Nagel, The Problem of Global Justice

Lecture 10: Discussion

Course Goals / Learning Outcomes:

On completion of the course, students will demonstrate an ability to state, analyse and evaluate the following:

· basic relations between law, justice and rights
· theories of natural law and human rights
· theories of legal system and legal order
· basic approaches in the sociology of law

In addition, students will demonstrate an ability to

· think and argue about legal concepts, topics and issues
· demonstrate skills of selecting relevant ideas, balancing and evaluating them
· present concepts and arguments both orally and in written form coherently and effectively

Final Examination:

Essay or oral examination

Means of communication:

MS Teams