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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.

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)



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