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Legal Studies 103 Theories of Law and Society

11:00-12:00 PM | 105 North Gate
Instructor David Lieberman

Legal Studies 103 - Spring 2007. An historical examination of major interpretations of law, morals and social development, with special emphasis on the social thought of the 18th and 19th centuries and including the writings of Marx, Maine, Durkheim, Weber and other contemporary figures.


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Lecture Archive
Wed 1/17 Course Introduction - Materials and Assignments - Podcast Not Available
Mon 1/22 Course Introduction - Theorists and Theories of Law and Society
Mon 1/22 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen: Modern Legal Liberty and Modern Legal Equality
Wed 1/24 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen: Citizenship and Exclusion (1)
Fri 1/26 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen: Citizenship and Exclusion (2)
Mon 1/29 Modern Rights Theory and 19th-Century Social Thought
Wed 1/31 Henry Maine and Historical Jurisprudence
Fri 2/2 Henry Maine: From Status to Contract - Legal Change in Ancient Society
Mon 2/5 Henry Maine: Fictions, Equity and Legislation
Wed 2/7 Henry Maine: Roman Law, Natural Law and Their Modern Legacies
Fri 2/9 Henry Maine: The Case for the Historical Method
Mon 2/12 Henry Maine: Status to Contract Revisited ? Modern Law and Modern Society
Wed 2/14 Henry Maine: the Comparative Method
Fri 2/16 The Largeness of the Sphere Occupied by Contract
Mon 2/19 Legal Studies 103 - Lecture 15 - President's Day
Wed 2/21 Marx: Towards Historical Materialism
Fri 2/23 Marx: Historical Materialism and the Theory of Society (Technical Problem - Podcast Not Available)
Mon 2/26 Marx: Capitalism and Human History
Wed 2/28 Marx: State and Law in Capitalist Society (1)
Fri 3/2 Marx: State and Law in Capitalist Society (2)
Mon 3/5 Marx: State and Law in Capitalist Society (2)
Wed 3/7 Marx: the Rights of Man and Citizen (Instructor ran overtime. Podcast ends early)
Fri 3/9 Marx: law, power and social conflict
Mon 3/12 Midterm
Wed 3/14 Durkheim and Weber; The Division of Labor
Fri 3/16 Durkheim?s Division of Labor ? Organizing Elements
Mon 3/19 Durkheim: Two Forms of Law and Their Moral Orientations
Wed 3/21 Durkheim: Status to Contract Revisited
Fri 3/23 No Lecture
Mon 3/26 Legal Studies 103 - Spring Break
Wed 3/28 Legal Studies 103 - Spring Break
Fri 3/30 Legal Studies 103 - Spring Break
Mon 4/2 Durkheim: Modern Individualism Revisited
Wed 4/4 Durkheim: Moral Individualism and Modern Society
Fri 4/6 Durkheim: The Politics of the Sociology of Morals
Mon 4/9 Weber?s Sociological Methods
Wed 4/11 Weber: Typology of Domination (1) - Authority and its Forms
Fri 4/13 Weber: Typology of Domination (2) ? Structures and Dynamics
Mon 4/16 Weber: Bureaucracy and its Leading Features
Wed 4/18 Weber: Bureaucracy and Social Rationalization
Fri 4/20 Modern Society ? Spheres of Rationalization: State, Economy and Law
Mon 4/23 Weber: Modern Law and Moden Bureaucracy
Wed 4/25 Weber: Modern Law and Formal Rationalization (Juridical Formalism)
Fri 4/27 Weber: Formalism, Bureaucracy and Modern Individualism
Mon 4/30 Course Review and Conclusions (1)
Wed 5/2 Course Review and Conclusions (2)
Fri 5/4 Course Review and Conclusions (3)
Mon 5/7 Course Review and Conclusions (4)