Jurisprudence Course

Tactical Fouling

What is the line between tactical/permissible fouling and cheating?

What is the Point of Sports?

Is the point of sport just amusement, or should we be pluralists about the goals of sporting activities

Introduction to the Jurisprudence of Sports

WTF is the Philosophy of Sports? WTF is the Jurisprudence of Sports? And why lawyers should care.

Meta-interpretation

1) Interpretive Methodologies; 2) The Standard Picture; 3) Economy of Trust

Episode 15: Planning Theory of Law II

1) Solving the puzzles; 2) Why I’m not an Inclusive Legal Positivist, Part II; 3) Logic of Planning

Episode 14: Planning Theory of Law I

1) Planning; 2) Law as a Planning Organization; 3) The Moral Aim Thesis

Episode 13: Why I am not an Inclusive Legal Positivist, Part I

1) Raz on Authority; 2) The Argument from Authority; 3) The Practical Difference Thesis

Episode 12: Law as Integrity

1) Concept vs Conception; 2) Conventionalism; 3) Hercules

Episode 11: Law’s Empire Strikes Back

1) Recap; 2) Theoretical Disagreements; 3) Constructive Interpretation

Episode 10: Hart on Law and Morality

1) Justice in Law; 2) Minimum content of the Natural Law; 3) Normative Legal Positivism

Episode 9: Hart on Interpretation

1) Formalism and open texture; 2) Rule skepticism; 3) Fuller’s critique

Episode 8: The Hart-Dworkin Debate

1) Rules vs Principles; 2) Principles in hard cases; 3) Exclusive vs Inclusive Legal Positivism

Episode 7: Critique of Hart’s Theory

1) Hart’s solution to Chicken-Egg Puzzle and Hume’s Challenge; 2) Are Social Rules Social Practices?; 3) Expressing Yourself Legally (plus: Roast Chicken recipe)

Episode 6: The Rule of Recognition

1) Intro to Rule of Recognition; 2) Properties of the Rule of Recognition; 3) The Rule of Recognition Rules

Episode 5: Hart’s Critique of Austin II

1) Duty, Command, Custom; 2) Sovereignty as habit; 3) Internal Point of View

Episode 4: Hart’s Critique of Austin I

1) Power conferring rules; 2) Nullities as Sanctions; 3) Kelsen’s theory

Episode 3: Chicken or Egg?

1) How is legal authority possible; 2) Hume’s Puzzle; 3) Austin’s theory of law

Episode 2: What is law?

1) What is “What is law”? 2) Legal Facts 3) Positivism vs Natural Law

Episode 1: Introduction to Jurisprudence Course

Introduction