Description
This course will examine and evaluate the origins of the law, the philosophy of law and legal rights; and the role of law in modern society. Focus will be given to the issues of legal reasoning and the rule of law; politics and morality; whether the law as it exists provides determinate anaswers to legal problems; whether the law treats, or should treat, people in an objective manner according to some abstract rule; how far law is anchored in something external to itself, such as social morality, social or political justice, economic efficiency, etc.; the process of law; the actors within the legal system; and law as a instrument of conflict resolution and social change.