Spring 2024

POLSCI 117L 001 - LEC 001

Jurisprudence

Daniel Lee

Jan 16, 2024 - May 03, 2024

Tu, Th

09:30 am - 10:59 am

Cory 277

Class #:33305

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Charles & Louise Travers Dept of Political Science

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: -1

Enrolled: 109

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 108

Waitlist Max: 0

Open Reserved Seats:0

Hours & Workload

1 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week, 3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, and 8 hours of outside work hours per week.

A Classical Approach to Law. This course consists of two main parts. The first part will be a standard course on Roman private law. Using Barry Nicholas’ Roman Law, students will study the essential features of classical Roman law: persons, property, successions, obligations, and actions. Students will also study basic legal problems through study of select cases, recorded in Justinian’s Digest. The second part of the course will then introduce students to major texts and debates in jurisprudence, such as legal positivism, modern natural law theory, and interpretivism. This is an upper-level undergraduate course. Latin is not required, but students will be expected to learn key legal vocabulary in Latin.

Class Notes

PS117L "Jurisprudence" used to be numbered PS116L "Roman Law". Students who have taken PS116L "Roman Law" in Spring 2023 cannot take PS117L "Jurisprudence" due to the substantial course overlap.