Jurisprudence Course: Recent Episodes

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What is the line between tactical/permissible fouling and cheating?

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Is the point of sport just amusement, or should we be pluralists about the goals of sporting activities

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WTF is the Philosophy of Sports? WTF is the Jurisprudence of Sports? And why lawyers should care.

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1) Interpretive Methodologies; 2) The Standard Picture; 3) Economy of Trust

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1) Solving the puzzles; 2) Why I’m not an Inclusive Legal Positivist, Part II; 3) Logic of Planning

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1) Planning; 2) Law as a Planning Organization; 3) The Moral Aim Thesis

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1) Raz on Authority; 2) The Argument from Authority; 3) The Practical Difference Thesis

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1) Concept vs Conception; 2) Conventionalism; 3) Hercules

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1) Recap; 2) Theoretical Disagreements; 3) Constructive Interpretation

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1) Justice in Law; 2) Minimum content of the Natural Law; 3) Normative Legal Positivism

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1) Formalism and open texture; 2) Rule skepticism; 3) Fuller’s critique

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1) Rules vs Principles; 2) Principles in hard cases; 3) Exclusive vs Inclusive Legal Positivism

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1) Hart’s solution to Chicken-Egg Puzzle and Hume’s Challenge; 2) Are Social Rules Social Practices?; 3) Expressing Yourself Legally (plus: Roast Chicken recipe)

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1) Intro to Rule of Recognition; 2) Properties of the Rule of Recognition; 3) The Rule of Recognition Rules

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1) Duty, Command, Custom; 2) Sovereignty as habit; 3) Internal Point of View

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1) Power conferring rules; 2) Nullities as Sanctions; 3) Kelsen’s theory

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1) How is legal authority possible; 2) Hume’s Puzzle; 3) Austin’s theory of law

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1) What is “What is law”? 2) Legal Facts 3) Positivism vs Natural Law

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Introduction