Reading 1: Speluncean Explorers
Lon Fuller, The Case of the Speluncean Explorers, 62 Harv. L. Rev. 616 (1949).
Audio lectures for JURI 4199, Modern American Legal Theory, at the University of Georgia School of Law.
Listen to each episode after doing the corresponding reading but before coming to class.
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Reading 2: Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Path of the Law, 10 Harvard L. Rev. 457 (1897).
Reading 3: Hohfeld
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning, 23 Yale L.J. 16 (1913).
Reading 4: Pound
Roscoe Pound, Law in Books and Law in Action, 44 American L. Rev. 12 (1910).
Reading 5: Hale
Robert Hale, Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-Coercive State, 38 Political Science Quarterly 470 (1923).
Reading 6: Cohen
Felix Cohen, Transcendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach, 35 Colum. L. Rev. 809 (1935).
Reading 7, Part 1: H.L.A. Hart
H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law (1961). This episode is an introduction to The Concept of Law and covers chapters one through four. You should listen before you begin this week’s reading assignment.
Reading 7, Part 2: H.L.A. Hart (Chapter 5)
H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law (1961), Chapter 5.
Reading 7, Part 3: H.L.A. Hart (Chapter 6)
H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law (1961), Chapter 6.
Reading 7, Part 4: H.L.A. Hart (Chapters 8 and 9)
H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law (1961), Chapters 8 and 9.
Reading 8: Fuller
Lon Fuller, Positivism and Fidelity to Law: A Reply to Professor Hart, 71 Harv. L. Rev. 630 (1958); Lon Fuller, The Morality of Law 33-41 (1969).
Reading 9: Dworkin
Ronald Dworkin, Integrity in Law, Chapter 7 of Law’s Empire (1986).