PHIL 730
Philosophy of Law
Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for PHIL 730.
Description
Discussion of selected topics in philosophy of law.
The topic this year is Philosophical Legal Ethics
Until fairly recently ‘legal ethics’ denoted an area concerned with the regulation of the legal profession through rules of professional conduct and the like. Over the past decade or two legal ethics has taken what has been called a ‘jurisprudential turn’, giving rise to ‘philosophical legal ethics’. Philosophical legal ethics views the role of lawyers from the perspective of the philosophy of law, and moral and political philosophy. While regulatory issues bear upon legal ethics so conceived, questions about the moral and political status and justification of role of law and lawyers have taken centre stage. In this course we will consider a range of classic and contemporary contributions to this emerging area. While that material is focused on lawyers and their role, it also addresses broader philosophical issues including the normative significance of social roles, the nature and demands of integrity, the relationship between law and morality, and the implications of familiar normative theories in professional contexts.
Availability 2017
Semester 2
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Associate Professor Tim Dare
Points
PHIL 730: 15 points
