Jurisprudence

4 credits · Undergraduate

Jurisprudence is the formal academic study of the theory of law. For centuries, law students in the Western world were traditionally introduced to the topic of Jurisprudence through the study of classical Roman law - the most important legal system and the ancestor to most major modern legal systems in the world today. Following this tradition, students in this course will be introduced to Jurisprudence by following the classical approach in Part I of the course. Part II will then investigate the major modern schools of Jurisprudence.