autumn 2017 JUR-8002 Jurisprudence - 6 ECTS
Objectives of the course
Upon completion of the course the student should have an understanding of basic scientific concepts and traditions, of legal science as a scientific subject and tradition, and of various legal science traditions. The individual student should be capable of formulating research questions of relevance to the individual doctoral project with the aid of the academic content. The course should also help train the student to participate in academic discussions, nationally and internationally.Assessment
The course has no formal examination. This must be viewed in the context of the students, after having completed all courses in the programme, submitting one or more pieces of work that will be assessed for a PhD degree in legal science by an assessment committee appointed by the faculty.
Coursework requirements:
Attending and actively participating in the lectures/seminars are compulsory for students. Active participation means that all students must try to link the various subjects discussed to their own projects, and give an account of this.
Each student is also expected to present articles for discussion in the seminars in line with the guidelines for reading seminars.
Recommended reading/syllabus
Curriculum alternative 2 (English texts):
Davies, Margaret, Asking the law question. The dissolution of legal theory, 3rd edition, 2008:
- Chapter 1 Asking the Law Question (what is it?)
- Chapter 2 Classical Common Law Theory
- Chapter 3 Natural Law and Positivism
- Chapter 4 Legal science
- Chapter 5 Critical Legal Studies: The Beginnings of a dissolution
- Chapter 8 Postmodernism and Deconstruction
Boundary-work in Legal Scholarship, by Eva-Maria Svensson, i Exploiting the Limits of Law, Ashgate 2007, s.17-49.
Toward Feminist Jurisprudence, by Catherine MacKinnon, i Feminist Jurisprudence, Patricia Smith (ed.), Oxford University Press 1993, s. 610-619
Kap.10 Legal science i Critical Legal Positivism, by Kaarlo Tuori, Ashgate 2002, s. 283-322
Error rendering component
- About the course
- Campus: Tromsø |
- ECTS: 6
- Course code: JUR-8002
- Responsible unit
- Det juridiske fakultet