Find a variety of Jurisprudence Courses that are currently available to students listed below.
Jurisprudence Courses
7333/Animal Law and Ethics
7311/Argument and Culture
This seminar invites the student to consider the way in which argument (or rhetoric) can operate as a transformative force in culture. It proceeds upon a critical reading of the great works of Western Civilization, inviting the student to ask critically what implication these works have for one's legal education and practice.
202/Conflict of Laws
7307/Culture and the Environment
Interdisciplinary seminar that combines the study of cultural ecology with legal anthropology. The course examines the historical roots of the current environmental crisis in the development of agriculture, urbanization and industrialization. The course focuses on the political and cultural challenges of climate change in other historical periods and the challenges that global warming presents in different parts of the world. Perspective & AWR
203/Federal Courts
7315/Human Nature and the Law Seminar
320/Judicial Opinion Writing
7391/Jurisprudence Topics
7390/Jurisprudence Tutorial
Modeled after the Oxford-Cambridge tutorial system in which the student and faculty member follow a course of reading and meet to discuss, this tutorial provides an opportunity for students to master a field of law and/or philosophy, or explore a particular author's writings in depth, or resolve a particular problem. The preferred subjects are philosophy, jurisprudence, social and political philosophy, ethics, land use, population, environmental, and tort law.
7330/Moral Philosophy for Professionals
This seminar will examine ethical issues in the professions with an emphasis on law: professional character and relationships, gender and moral reasoning, confidentiality, deception, paternalism and allocation of limited resources. Readings in professional ethics and ethical theory are applied to concrete situations facing professionals, including lawyers, environmental professionals, health providers, journalists, social workers, and political agencies.
7310/Remedies
210/Remedies
7323/The Law and Popular Culture
7350/Women and the Law Seminar
Explores the interaction of the law and gender via an in-depth study of legal responses to domestic violence. Includes discussions of family law, the civil and criminal systems, and the international human rights dimensions of this issue.