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PROPOSED SYLLABUS
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Economics 4XX?
Legal Principles for Economists
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I. History of Common Law and other Systems
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(a) Courts of Law and Courts of Equity
(b)
Doctrine of Stare Decisis (precedents)
(c)
Statutes
(d)
Codified law (Roman and Code Napolcan)
(e) Custom
II. Legal Reasoning
(a)
Role of courts in interpreting law
(b)
Conflicts of statutes and common law
(c)
Precedential (common law) vs. deductive (code) methods
(d)
Statutory interpretation
III. Legal Research Methods and Sources
(a)
Library materials
(b)
Selected cases to
brief
IV. Modern
Common Law in Canada and other Countries
(a)
Unity of property, contracts and torts
(b)
Development of the corporation law in Canada, Britain and
U.S.
(c)
Selected issues: compensation and takings, nuisance,
Inheritance, fraud, trespass, breach, criminal acts
(d)
Critique of Posner's "efficient
courts"
hypothesis
(e)
Judicial procedures
V. Public Purpose and Law
(a)
Balance of Convenience doctrine
(b)
Restraints of trade
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VI.
Administrative
Law and Regulation
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(a) "Natural justice" doctrine
(b) Health, welfare and safety: informational externalities
and paternalism
(c)
Selected examples of market regulations: natural monopoly,
securities, AIR, agricultural marketing, food and drugs,
safety, environmental law.
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(d)
The capture theory of regulation and it.; crit Ics
(e) The choice
between
regulation and comnKm law
VIE. Constitutional Law
(a)
British North American Act
(b)
"Unwritten" constitutional law, tradition and custom
(c)
Some U.S. and British constitutional issues
VIII. ?
Jur
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
IX. The
isprudential Issues
The judge and the legislator roles
Public opinion and the law
The Jury and the finding of
fact
Stare Decista revisited
Philosophical issues
In
law
Bench and Bar
(a)
History of the Bar in Canada, U.S. and Britain
(b) Legal ethics and restraints on practice
(c)
110w are judges constrained?
(d)
Economics of the legal profession
(e)
Lawyers and social change
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X. Selected topics in Application of Economics to Law
(a)
Coase's theorem and the rule
of
liability
(b)
Entitlements and amenity rights
(c)
Caveat emptor and caveat venditor
(d)
Civil procedure as a costly
process
(e)
Punishment and crime: two
hypotheses
(f)
Mergers and the market
for
corporate control
(g)
Optimal rules and "fairness"
Pa'\ia1 BIbiiogra\
(Suggested iid Required Read\ngs)
Selection from
following
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Bernard\. Clermont, Cenera\ Introduction to Canadian Law.
(1968). ?
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L.M. Friedm\
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an&pion,
(1971).
T.W. Friedm
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Herber
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Department of Economics and Commerce
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COURSE OUTLINE
COURSE: Economics 484-3
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SEMESTER: Spring, 1979
TITLE: The Economics of Bureaucracy
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INSTRUCTOR: Zane Spindler
Office: 6170 AQ
Tele2h2ne: 291-4167
Office Hours: M, W 2:30-3:30
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Course Prospectus:
Perhaps this course could be better described by the title "Towards an Economics
of iureaucracy" since a detailed and accepted economic theory of bureaucracy
does not yet exist. There are, however, some very interesting attempts at
constructing such a theory. These attempts for the most part, are based on the
concepts of "constrained maximization by individual decision units" (i.e. indi-
vidual people!) that are borrowed from microeconomics and decision theory.
These past attempts will be studied (primarily those dealing with government
and other non-profit bureaucracies) and further attempts will be made at applying
the economic behavioralistic model to other bureaucratic problems. Major
attention will be given to the policy implication of such theories (e.g. whether
institutional changes could be made in order to make bureaucracies work "better"
or at all!). The course will definitely be exploratory in nature. It should be
particulary useful to those economics majors who are interested in the economics
of government and government policy and to those commerce majors who are interested
in organization theory. A thorough knowledge of intermediate microeconomics will
be useful but not required.
Course Format:
The style of presentation of the course will depend, in part, on the number and
nature of the participants. If class size is fairly small, the course will
entail more seminars than lectures and students will be expected to be fully
prepared for each seminar.
Grading:
Course grades will depend equaiiyon class participation, a formal seminar paper/
presenation and a final examination.
Texts:
William Niskanen, Bureaucracy and
Representative Government.
D. G. Hartle, A Theory of the Expenditure Budgetary Process (paperback).
Readin&s:
W. D. K. Kernaghan, Bureaucracy in Canadian Government (paperback).
A reading list will be available during the first week of class.
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Department of Economics and Commerce
COURSE OUTLINE
COURSE: Commerce 492-3
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SEMESTER: Spring, 1979
TITLE: Political Marketing
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INSTRUCTOR: G. Mauser
Course Descri2ti2n:
This course will examine the use of marketing in electoral politics. We shall
cover such topics as public opinion, cominunications/persuation models, voter
and consumer behaviour, electoral campaigning methods in Europe, the U.S. and
in Canada. Political Science as well as Commerce students are encouraged to
enroll in this course.
Prerequisites:
Permission of the Instructor.
Oran1zation:
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Oiw three hour seminar per week. There will be an optional midterm examination.
Students may select to do either a final examination or a term paper.
Read lns:
Lane & Sears, Public Opinion
Ninuno, Political Persuaders
DeLozier, Marketing Communications Process
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English 374
Spring 1979
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R. Blaser
Special Studies A
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THE PROPHETIC POEM: BLAKE, YEATS AND GINSBERG
The purpose of this course is to study the special language and
structure of the prophetic poem in
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the work of Blake, Yeats and Ginsberg.
Initial lectures will trace the tradition of the prophetic poem in. terms
of Blake's response to Milton and especially to Paradise Regained. The
course will then map this tradition as it becomes a 'dialogue with history
In the poetry of Yeats and Ginsberg. Considered attention will be given
to Yeats' relation to Blake and Shelley and to Ginsbrg
t
s relation to
Blake and Whitman. The course will conclude with reflections on the
prophetic voice in contemporary poetry.
Required Texts:
[1
William Blake
(ed. David Erdamn)
Allen Ginsberg
W. B. Yeats.
(ed. M.L. Rosenthal)
The Poetry and Prose of
William Blake
The Fall of Americp
Selected Poems and Two Plays
Doubleday
City Lights
Collier Books
Course Requirements:
Final exam.
Seminars will concentrate on detailed textual study. Seminar presentations
and a final paper.
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Seminars wili
be hel4 in the
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first week
of ciaeeee.
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Herewith course outlines for the following Selected Topics courses being taught
in 79-1:-
POL.419-3: Selected Topics
in
Political Thought II - Technology: Roots
and Consequences
POL.429-3: Selected Topics in Canadian Govt. &
Politics II - Quebec Government & Politics
POL.449-3: Selected Topics in International
Relations - Issues in Canadian Foreign Policy
POL.458-3: Selected Topics in Public Law and
Public Administration - Urban Planning: A Political
Process.
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P01... 419-3 SELDT TOPICS IN
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TECHNOLOGY: ROOTS AND CONSEQUENCES
COURSE OUTLINE
Dr. P. Norton
Spring,
1979
Course Description
This course examines, in Francis Bacon's writings, the original argument
that science, including political science, is to be judged according to its
"fruits". This is the source of the modem concept of technology. Rousseau's
and
Locke' s thoughts on
science and its
contribution to
human
happiness
provide
a way of examining the early realization of the ambiguous value of technology.
EUU1' s and Grant's books develop this ambiguity nore comprehensively and
consciously, because of the advantage of the contemporary experience with
advanced, or advancing, technological societies. How the state, or more
broadly, political life, can and ought to control the will to technology and
its modem consequences is the underlying theme of this course.
.equired Texts
Francis Bacon, The New Orgaron (B 3.168 E5 AS)
Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis (B 3.191 S4 1964) (B 3.190 1906)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
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and Second Discourses (PQ 200 D63 E54)
Cropsey, "Political Life arid the Natural Order" (Reint)
George Grant, Technology and
rin--e
(E
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Jacques Ellul, TheTechnolog
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Society (T14 E553 196)
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POL.
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9-3
QUEBEC GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
COURSE OUTLINE
Dr. J. Benjamin
Spring, 19?9
The lectures will focus exclusively on Quebec.
Students will
be
encouraged to write their final
papers
on any other province
.
, on a
comparative basis.
Political Culture and
Institutions
1.
The socio-econanic support of the Liberal Party and of the Parti Quebecois.
2. The
Distribution of Power under Premiers Lesage, Johnson, Bertrand,
Bourassa and Levesque.
3. The
local Structures of Political Parties.
. Inge-Making vs. Image-Projection.
Soc io-Econcinic Envfrrmn
5. The Planning Processes, 1960-1979.
6.
Social Services: A New Model, 1972-1979.
7. Workers'
Self-Management:
Quebec Case Studies, 1974-1979.
REQUIRED READING
Henry Milner, Politics in the New Quebec.
Reconinended Readi
Posgate 6 McPberts, Quebec: Social Change and Political Crisis
John Saywell, The Rise
of
the Parti Quebecois, 1967-1976.
Specific articles will also be recommended each week.
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9_3 SLLIX.TLD TOPICS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:
ISSUES IN CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY
COURSE OUTLINE
Dr.
Theodore
H. Cohn
Spring s
1979
Course Description
In this course we will examine Canada's foreign relations with other
industrialized states, primarily the United States, the European corronunity,
and Japan. Special emphasis will be placed on the issues of foreign invest-
ment, foreign trade, monetary relations, and defence.
Required Reading
A. Fox, A. Hero and J. Nye (eds.), Canada and the United States - Transnationall
and rr'ansgovernmental Relations, Columbia University Press, 1976.
Canada-United States Relations - Volume II, The Standing Senate Committee on
Foreign Affairs, Ottawa, 1978.
Articles will be assigned on Canada's relations with Japan and the European
community.
Organization
One three-hour seminar. Final grade will be based on a research paper
dnd a
seminar discussion paper.
Seminar: 25%
Paper:
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75%
POL. 458-3
URPM PLANNING: A POLITICAL PROCESS
COURSE OUTLINE
Dr. J. Ben
jamin
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Spring, 1979
The lectures will focus, this session, on the urbanlanning processes.
They will use case studies taken mostly from two Canadian cities, Vancouver
and Montreal.
INTRODUCTION: An Overview of Urban Planning: Objectives, Means,
Guidelines and Conceptions of Society
I. URBAN BUDGETARY PROCESSES
A)
Two Models: P. P.B.S. and Zeo
Base
Budgeting
B)
Two Case Studies:
The
Vancouver and Montreal Budgetary Proceèses
Read: A. Schick, 'The Road to P.
p .
B. S.: The Stages of Budget
Reform",
Public Administration Review, December 1966.
W .A. Kimmel, et a].., Municipal Management
and Budget
Methods-
II. URBAN TRANSIT
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'A) Planning Urban Transit:
For
Wham?
B) 3 Case Studies: Spadina, 3rd crossing, East-West Autoroute
Read: Krueger & Bryfogle, Urban Problems, chapters 7 S 9.
III. HOUSING
K) The
North American Spatial Strategies
B) The Case Studies of Vancouver and Montreal
Read: Michel Barce].o,
"The
Housing
Cloice
of Urban Canada" in Krueger S
Bryfogle, Urban Problems, chapter 10.
IV. ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIVENESS: HOW MANY LEVELS OF URBAN GOVERNMENT?
A)
A Recent Model:
The
Royal Crmission Report on Metro Toronto (1977).
B)
Legitiniacy
of Supra-Municipal Government: A Regional Consciousness
C)
Accountability of Neighbourhood Institutions:
To Wlxmi?
Read: Krueger S Bryfogle, Urban Problems, chapters 13-14.
W .G. Hardwick & D. Ilardwick in D. Ley ,Cc
g
mn.iitw Participation...
REQ
UIRED READING
Krueger S Bryfogle, Urban Problems.
Recomnended Reading
dJIiiiiinity Participation and
the Spatial Order of the City.
Donald Gutstein, Vancouver Ltd.
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EVENING COURSE
• Spring 1979
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PHILOSOPHY 231
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Jon Wheatley
TRUTH: AN INVESTIGATION OF SOME CONTEMPORARY THEORIES
Required Text:
George Pitcher, ed.
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Truth
There will also be selected hand-outs.
Course Description:
This course will investigate some contemporary and rival theories of truth in a
systematic manner beginning with Tarski and moving through Austin, Strawson and
Duniiiett. It will also discuss the idea of rational belief.
CoUrse Requirements:
Reading. The whole of Truth edited by Pitcher plus a maximum of two other papers
which will be given out in class. Some of the reading will be very detailed.
Examination. There will be a pass/fail mid-term test simply to demonstrate know-
ledge and understanding of the reading. A student who fails may take another exam-
ination on the same material twice more before he actually fails the course through
this mechanism.
Papers. A 5-to 10 page paper will be required at midterm. This paper may be re-
written once to improve the grade.
A 10 to 15 page paper (which may, with special permission, be a deepening and dev-
elopnient of the first paper) will be required and will be due at approximately the
end of classes.
Some paper topics will be given out in the first class and more will be given out
subsequently. A student may write on a topic of his own choosing, subject to the
permission of the instructor, within the general subject-matter of the course.
Presentations. Each student must be prepared to give an oral presentation based
on one of his written papers.
Grading. Grading
.
will be strict but there will be opportunity to improve a grade
by early submission of a paper and subsequent re-writin
g
- The grade for the course
will be determined on the basis of 1/3 for the first paper and 2/3 for the second.
Oral presentation is regarded entirely as a very valuable learning experience and
does not form part of the grade.
Method of Instruction. Between the beginning and end of the semester the classes
will go from being 80% lecture and 20% discussion to (hopefully) 40% lecture and
60% discussion. In general, discussion will be encouraged but it must be discip-
lined.
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Spring 1979
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PHILOSOPHY 314
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P. Hanson
TOPICS IN LOGIC I: LOGICAL IMPLICATION, ENTAILMENT:
AND DEDUCIBILITY
Prerequisites:
Philosophy 210 or permission of instructor.
Required Texts:
Reading material to be supplied by instructor.
Course Description:
Bertrand Russell, a father of modern logic, thought of formal logic as embodying
"the theory of implication", where implication was a relation between propositions
such that for propositions A and B, A implied B just in case B was validly infer-
rable from A. Formal logic would not only catalogue the implications that there
are, but explain what made them implications. SimiTarily, C.I. Lewis said, in
1914
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"... a logical calculus is a system not only of implication but about im-
plication", and in a later publication said that the goal of logic was to give
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a ". . . canon and critique . .•." of valid inference. But Lewis' logic(
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diverge(s) sharply from the Russell/Whitehead system in Principla Mathematica.
Is this because of a genuine divergenceof intuitions about implication, or
because of diverging theoretical goals confusingly assimilated under a single
rubric "implication"? In particular, how, or to what extent, can a formal
system embody both a canon and a critique of valid inference?
The story doesn't end with Russell and Lewis. More recent logicians, such as
Gentzen, Heyting, Anderson and Belnap, Smiley and Scott have contributed their
systems of "Implication", "entailment", "deducibility" and the like. A goal of
the course will be to differentiate and relate the varying concepts and goals
underlying and motivating these systems. A more fundamental goal will be to
get clearer about the nature of logic.
Course Requirements:
Exercises, short papers, perhaps a final paper.
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• Spring 1979
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PHILOSOPHY 360
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R. Bradley
LOGICAL ATOMISM
Required Texts:
D. Pears (introduction) Russells' Lectures on Logical Atomism
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
David Pears
Anthony Kenny
Robert Fogelin
Course Description:
Notebooks, 1914-1918
Tractatus Logico-Phil osophicus
Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein
The predominant temper of English speaking philosophers since the 1920s has been
decidedly antimetaphysical. And so it has been also among all those - English.
speaking or otherwise - who took their philosophical cues from the Vienna Circle.
Metaphysics, according to the Logical Positivists, is a fraud perpetrated on the
.
weak-minded by those who cannot get their thinking straight. The pronouncements
of the metaphysicians deserve to be taken no more seriously than those of someone
Who, under the influence of alcohol or drugs, claims that invisible, weightless
and intangible elephants are dancing on his bedroom ceiling. Such a claim, it would
be said, can neither be verified nor falsified; it is - the positivists conclude -
literally senseless.
From whence
• does this put-down ofmetaphysics arise? In large measure It can be
traced to some remarks of the early Wittgenstein and to the long-standing presump-
tion that Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico Philosophicus is to be read as an evangel-
ical tract against metaphysics. Had not Wittgenstein insisted that only proposi-
tions of natural science are sayable? And had he not concluded his Tractatus with
the memorable pronouncement: "That whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be
silent"?
This reading of Wittgenstein's Tractatus, however, generates paradox. In the first
place, ?
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the Tractatus is full of pr
o
nouncements which, like that just quoted, do not
belong to natal science and which therefore are indicted, along with the crasser
claims of metaphysics, as literally senseless - as belonging, that is, to the realm
about which we can say nothing (and, for that matter, as Ramsey pointed out, about
which we cannot even whistle anything) ?
Secondly, this interpretation of the Tractatus
generates paradox, or at least deep puzzlement, as soon as one starts reading the
book itself. For from the very outset we find Wittgenstein developing a robust and
powerful version of atomism: and not just a theory of physical atomism, such as that
of Democritus, Leucippus and Lord Rutherford; but a theory of metaphysical atomism -
.
an atomism which Wittgenstein believed must characterize not only the actual world
but any other possible world as well.
This is the point of take-off for our studies in Phil 360, of Logical Atomism.
What, we shall ask, is the solution to the above-mentioned paradoxes? Why is
Wittgenstein's atomism standardly referred to as logical" atomism? Is his
metaphysics anything more than a metaphorical projection of his logical doctrines
and his theory of language? How seriously can we today, with the benefit of phil-
osophical hindsight and much Wittgenstein scholarship, take it all? What connec-
tion, if any, is there between Wittgenstein's metaphysics and the currently fash-
ionable metaphysics of possible worlds? Can a possible worlds reconstruction of
the Tractatus be given such that, in terms of It, light can be thrown on Wittgen-
stein's theories of language and logic? And how, if at all, does it link with the
epistemological doctrines which Bertrand Russell propounded, In his Lectures on
Logical Atomism?
As it happens, I'm writing a book on all this. I'd like to have - because I think
I'd benefit from having - an enthusiastic class of students each of whom is pre-
pared to read, think and discuss a lot about issues like the above. My own belief
is that these issues are still live and important ones. So although I'll make some
effort to discuss them within the confines of Wittgenstein's and Russell's writings,
I'll also do my best to demonstrate their contemporary significance.
Course Requirements:
Each student will be called upon, at least once (and perhaps more than once) during
the term, to give a brief in-class presentation (in lecture style) of his/her phil-
osophical thoughts about an assigned topic. And each student, each week, will be
.
required to write a brief paper (2-3 pages) pertaining to one of the topics discussed
in the previous week's seminar. Grades will be determined on the basis of:
(a)
assessment of each student's 10 best weekly papers;
(b)
assessment of each student's in-class presentation(s);
(c) assessment of each student's contribution to seminar discussion.
There will be no mid-term and no final.
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• Spring 1979
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,. ? PHILOSOPHY 467
?
D. Copp
RIGHTS AND THE LAW
Required Texts:
Ronald Dworkin
?
Taking Rights Seriously
H.L.A. Hart
?
The concept of Law
Course Description:
"Legal positivism" is a very influential theory of law developed most pervasively
by H.L.A. Hart. Ronald Dworkin has recently. argued against this theory in a series
of articles and in his book Takin9
Ri ?
h
ts Seriously. Dworkin holds that a complete
theory of law tells us both what law is and what it ought to be. The most widely
accepted theory, he thinks, combines legal positivism and utilitarianism, but he
rejects both. Most important, he contends that there are certain "principles"
which are part of the law but are not accommodated within positivism, and that
there are certain moral rights which ought to shape the law, but are not recognized
by utilitarianism. We will study the theories of both Hart and Dworkin.
Course Requirements:
Four short papers and one longer paper due at the end of the term. Weekly evidence
of study of the material.
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Pabiit:.r:: A
In celebration of nternatiow!- Children's Year
c,ia
course is being offered
as part of an Interdisciplinary program of study on children and
fimiliet.
It
is
designed to inrtegrate
Information from
t
v
.
y
a disciplines of psychology,
eounLcatiou arui
kivesiology
n order tc bette:: understand the growth and
development of chIldren and fnil1e.
Instructors: 3ea
ioepke, Aid: Davis,Aura Poprn
Text: Skolnick,
A. & Skolnic 3. Frily In
,
T;:ncJ22i 2nd
ad.
Toronto:
Little, Brown axe Co. 1977.
Course Ou-t-line
Introduction:
Ways
of Studyiu;
the Imi1y
Starting A Family
Coupling
Pregnancy and PrearLm For Birth
The
lthtb 2psrienee
SThe Family Is Three
Mother and Child: I%itrit ion and Growth.
aily Deepinant Faiily nbcr As
Wucatote
Role T(odels and
Ft11y Stresses
The Growing Family
Xncreneing Featly Siz..:
14otive3, Strtsaon,
PhymU:el and
Pay&ioIogicl Fact
o
rs
ramily
jjLt ,
ection ?
erru and Ways of
?
nting
Lifestyles:
Health • Nutrition, Vitneov and G.
Older CM1dr.i:
?
iands,
Parily, Tnacbzars and
Media
As Educators
!amilie with
?
sceuts: Pube.rty, Id.n1t7
and Parenting
Conclusion:
The Yuture of the ?aiily
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