Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts, 4th Edition

Part 1: Law and Politics.

1. General Themes:
1.1 Introduction to the Relationship between Law and Politics
1.2 Sovereignty
1.3 The rule of law & the 'inner morality of law'
1.4 Rights
1.5 Identifying Valid Law.

2. Advanced Topics:
2.1 Justice
2.2 Constitutionalism and Citizenship
2.3 Law, politics and globalisation
2.4 Law and the state of emergency
2.5 The Rule of law in political transitions. Tutorials.

Part 2: Legal Reasoning.

1. General Themes:
1.1 Legal System and legal reasoning
1.2 Legal Formalism
1.3 American Legal Realism
1.4 Open texture' and the limits of judicial discretion
1.5 Law as Interpretative practice
1.6 The politics of legal reasoning.

2. Advanced Topics.
2.1 Natural law and the limits of rule following
2.2 Equality, difference and domination: feminist critiques of adjudication
2.3 Trials, facts and narratives
2.4 Judging in an unjust society
2.5 Law and Deconstruction. Tutorials.

Part 3: Law and Modernity.

1. General Themes.
1.1 The Advent of Modernity
1.2 Law and Social Solidarity
1.3 Law, power and exploitation
1.4 Formal legal rationality and legal modernity
1.5 Transformations of Modern law.

2. Advanced Topics.
2.1 Legal pluralism
2.2 Juridification
2.3 Displacing the juridical: Foucault on power and discipline
2.4.Law in the risk society
2.5 Law and Autopoiesis