Jurisprudence

Harvard HLS

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-Home Jurisprudence is the silent and controlling partner in every judge's and every lawyer's reasoning about law. A judge, a lawyer, a citizen, a law student cannot answer any legal question without a sufficiently clear sense of what law is— as distinct, say, from religion, or hard science or social science— and what it is that constitutes legal reasoning and argument (as opposed to, say, reasoning in empirical science or theology or…