41063016--Jurisprudence Course Syllabus

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Course Syllabus of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law


Course Title: Jurisprudence

Course Code

41063016

Semester

1st Semester

Teaching Hours

32

Credits

2

Prerequisites

Acquaintance with law major.

Instructor Information

Name

LUO Xin

Email

luoxin@zuel.edu.cn

Institute

Law School, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law

Applicable Object

International Students

Course Objectives

 

The aim of the course is to provide the students with basic knowledge, abilities and skills in the area of law. The students will study the specifics of law, interaction of law and moral, other social regulations. Studying of law as an instrument of the government, the students understand the interdependency of law, politics and economics. The students study main legal categories (law, sources of law, system of law, law enforcement, etc.). They understand the difference between basic legal categories in the countries with different legal cultures.

 

The students will be suggested to make comparisons of main legal theories, modern legal trends. This objective can be achieved only by providing the understanding of main legal methods, approaches to law, and of the balance between Law, Rights and Justice.

 

Course Description

 

The course is aimed at providing the students with the general understanding of western legal theories and Chinese legal philosophy, advanced abilities of legal thinking, logic and methods of the understanding of social conflicts, understanding of legal materials and knowledge of their main sources. It should also encourage the development of students ability of self-expression in the sphere of human rights, law and justice, the habit of critical reading of legal documents.

 

The course is also characterized by its special emphasis on the comparative understanding of the world's legal systems and philosophies, and the construction of its own national legal philosophy.

Assessment Methods

Please choose the jurisprudence embedded in the law of your own country as the object of writing.

 

You may discuss the representative legal theories or typical characteristics of the law in your country, or you may choose to write the ratio of a specific aspect of the legal system, such as the jurisprudence of the marriage law, the system of election, the penalty system etc.;

 

Please pay attention to highlight the characteristics of the legal system, and try to compare with other nation's legal systems in certain perspective.

 

Minimal words: 5000; More words are welcome.

Textbooks and References

A SOURCE BOOK IN CHINESE PHILOSOPHY.陈荣捷 中国哲学文献选编

Fei Xiaotong. 费孝通.The Foundations of Chinese Society.乡土中国

Jinfan Zhang. 张晋藩. The Tradition and Modern Transition of Chinese Law.中国法律的传统与近代转型

Law and Society in Traditional China. 瞿同祖. T'ung Tsu Ch'ü. 中国法律与中国社会. 中华现代学术名著丛书.158. 商务印书馆. 2011

The Tang Code. 唐律疏议. Vol.1. General Principles. Trans. Wallace Johnson. Princeton 1979

Ta Tsing Leu Lee.大清律例. George Thomas Staunton. Being the Fundamental Laws and a Selection of the Supplementary Statutesof the Penal Code of China. London. 1810

Fundamental legal conceptions, as applied in judicial reasoning. Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld. paperbound by Yale university press. 1919

Hans Kelsen.Pure Theory of Law.2nd.Revised and Enlarged.edi.tran.Max Knight.Univ. of California Press.1967

Hans Kelsen.General Theory of Norms.the final form of the Pure Theory of Law.tran. Michael Hartney.Clarendon Press.1991

William Twining.General Jurisprudence.Understanding Law from a Global Perspective. Law in Context.2009

H. L.A. Hart. The Concept of Law. 3rd edi. Clarendon law series. Oxford Univ. Press. 2012

Raymond Wacks.Philosophy of law.A very short introduction.2nd Edi.Oxford Univ.Press.2014

Lloyds Introduction to Jurisprudence. 9th Edition. Michael Freeman. Sweet & Maxwell. 2014

Brian Bix, Jurisprudence: Theory and Context.7th ed., 2015

Jurisprudence, themes and concepts. Scott Veitch, Emilios Christodoulidis, Marco Goldoni. 3rd. edi. Routledge. 2018

Course planning

Chapter 1

Outline of the course;

The Nature of Jurisprudence and Conceptual Analysis

Brian Bix, Joseph Raz and Conceptual Analysis, American

Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Law,

vol. 06(2), pp. 1-7 (2007), reprinted at

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=948766

Chapter 2

Natural Law Theory (Aquinas)

Aquinas on Law (Summa Theologica, I-II, Questions 90-97)

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/aquinas2.html

Bix, pp. 67-74

Natural Law Theory, cont. (John Finnis)

John Finnis, Natural Law Theories (2015), The Stanford

Encyclopedia of Philosophy

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/natural-law-theories/

Bix, pp. 75-81

Chapter 3

Legal Positivism -- Austin

Brian Bix, John Austin (2014), The Stanford Encyclopedia of

Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/austin-john/

 

Legal Positivism -- Hart

H. L. A. Hart, Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals, 71

Harvard Law Review 593 (1958) (Hein Online)

Bix, pp. 33-49

Chapter 4

Legal Positivism -- Hart

H. L. A. Hart, Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals, 71

Harvard Law Review 593 (1958) (Hein Online)

Bix, pp. 33-49

Lon L. Fuller, Positivism and Fidelity to Law -- A Reply to Professor

Hart, 71 Harvard Law Review 630 (1958)

Matthew Kramer, Scrupulousness Without Scruples: A Critique of Lon

Fuller and His Defenders, 18 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies

235 (1998)

Chapter 5

Hans Kelsens Pure Theory of Law

Hans Kelsen, What is the Pure Theory of Law?

34 Tulane Law Review 269 (1960)

Hans Kelsen, The Pure Theory of Law and Analytical Jurisprudence,

55 Harvard Law Review 44 (1941) (both Hein Online)

Bix, 57-66

Chapter 6

Critical Legal Studies I

Duncan Kennedy, Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy,

32 Journal of Legal Education 591 (1982)

Morton J. Horwitz, Rights, 23 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties

Law Review 393 (1988) (both Hein Online)

Bix, pp. 235-239

Critical Legal Studies II

Mark Tushnet, Defending the Indeterminacy Thesis,

16 QLR [Quinnipiac Law Review] 339 (1996)

John Finnis, On The Critical Legal Studies Movement,’” 30 American

Journal of Jurisprudence 21 (1985)

Chapter 7

Law and Evolutionary Biology, Review Session

Owen D. Jones, Law and Biology: Toward an Integrated Model of

Human Behavior,  8 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues

167 (1997)

Ethics, Law and the Politics of Information, A Guide to the Philosophy of Luciano Floridi, Springer.2017

Mireille Hildebrandt, Jeanne Gaakeer, Human Law and Computer Law: Comparative Perspectives. Springer.2013

Chapter 8

Jinfan Zhang. The Tradition and Modern Transition of Chinese Law.

Law and Society in Traditional China. T'ung Tsu Ch'ü. 2011

The Tang Code. ol.1. General Principles. Trans. Wallace Johnson. Princeton 1979

Ta Tsing Leu Lee.George Thomas Staunton. Being the Fundamental Laws and a Selection of the Supplementary Statutesof the Penal Code of China. London. 1810


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