Central Issues in Legal and Social Thought

Harvard HLS

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam; Paper in lieu of examination This seminar addresses central themes of legal and social theory. It takes as its focus the relation of law and legal thought to the formative institutional arrangements and ideological assumptions of society: its structure. The seminar can serve as an introduction to jurisprudence. However, it is not a survey of contemporary schools of jurisprudence; it seeks to offer a sustained exploration of a fundamental…