Instructor Class Description

Time Schedule:

• Spring Quarter 2013
• Summer Quarter 2013
• Autumn Quarter 2013

Janice E. Moskalik
PHIL 114
Seattle Campus

Philosophical Issues in the Law

Analysis and critical assessment of various philosophical issues in law and legal reasoning. Material drawn from actual law cases, as well as writings by contemporary philosophers of law and lawyers. Topics include criminal responsibility, civil disobedience, abortion, enforcement of morals. Special legal or philosophical training not required.

Class description

Analysis and critical assessment of various philosophical issues in law and legal reasoning. Material drawn from actual law cases, as well as writings by contemporary philosophers of law and lawyers. Topics include criminal responsibility, civil disobedience, abortion, enforcement of morals. Special legal or philosophical training not required.

TEXTS: "Legal Reasoning", Martin P. Golding; On Liberty and Other Essays, John Stuart Mill; The Enforcement of Morals, Patrick Devlin; Toward a Feminist Theory of the State, Catherine MacKinnon.

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