Jurisprudence *   [Archived Catalog]
2015-2016 School of Law Academic Catalog
   

LAW 730 - Jurisprudence *

Credits, 2-3 sem. hrs.
This course addresses issues concerning to the nature of law and its foundations. Is law based on morality or economic efficiency? Is law just a form of politics relating to class, race, or gender? Students will be introduced to the answers to these questions posed by the major schools of jurisprudence including natural law theory, legal positivism, legal realism, law and economics, critical legal studies, feminist legal theory, critical race theory, and postmodern legal theory.

This course has not been offered in the last three years. We have kept it in the catalog after a faculty review because we have plans to offer it in the next two years.