Alternative Approaches to Legal Scholarship (Graduate Students only) (LAW245H1F)

At a Glance

First Term
Credits
3
Hours
3

Enrolment

Maximum
100
100 LLM/SJD/MSL/NDEGS/SJD U

Schedule

T: 6:10 - 9:00
Instructor(s): David Dyzenhaus

The Blackboard program will be used for this course. Students must self-enrol in Blackboard prior to the start of school in both terms in order to obtain course information. We will examine alternative frameworks within which a wide range of legal problems can be analyzed and prescriptions evaluated.

Note: Attendance is mandatory.

These frameworks might include those provided by "law and economics", "law and philosophy" (including utilitarianism, Kantianism and Aristotelian theories), legal history, critical legal studies, feminism, critical race theory, and sociological theories of law. Leading examples of legal scholarship in each of these intellectual veins will form the subject matter of the seminar with guest lecturers having special expertise in the different areas leading discussion.

Evaluation
will be by way of three short written assignments (approx. 5-6 pages each).