Duncan Kennedy, The Stages of the Decline of the Public/Private Distinction, 130 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1349 (1982); Christian Turner, Origins of the Public/Private Theory of Legal Systems, in Private Law: Key Encounters with Public Law 117 (Kit Barker and Darryn Jensen, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Robin West, Jurisprudence and Gender, 55 University of Chicago Law Review 1 (1988); Martha C. Nussbaum, Robin West, Jurisprudence and Gender: Defending a Radical Liberalism, 75 University of Chicago Law Review 985 (2008).
Lawrence Solum, On the Indeterminacy Crisis: Critiquing Critical Dogma, 54 University of Chicago Law Review 462 (1987).
Robert Gordon, Unfreezing Legal Reality: Critical Approaches to Law, 15 Florida State University Law Review 195 (1987).
Mark Kelman, Consumption Theory, Production Theory, and Ideology in the Coase Theorem, 52 Southern California Law Review 669 (1979).
John Finnis, Law and What I Truly Should Decide, 48 American Journal of Jurisprudence 107 (2003).
Scott J. Shapiro, The “Hart-Dworkin” Debate: A Short Guide for the Perplexed, in Ronald Dworkin 22-55 (Arthur Ripstein ed.) (2007).
Lon Fuller, Positivism and Fidelity to Law: A Reply to Professor Hart, 71 Harv. L. Rev. 630 (1958); Lon Fuller, The Morality of Law 33-41 (1969).
H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law (1961). This episode is an introduction to The Concept of Law and covers chapters one through four. You should listen before you begin this week's reading assignment.
Felix Cohen, Transcendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach, 35 Colum. L. Rev. 809 (1935).
Robert Hale, Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-Coercive State, 38 Political Science Quarterly 470 (1923).
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning, 23 Yale L.J. 16 (1913).