Høst 2025

JUR-8002 Legal theory and legal philosophy - 4 stp

The course is administrated by

Det juridiske fakultet

Type of course

Students must be admitted to the PhD programme in Law.

Course overlap

JUR-8002 Philosophy of Science in Law 4 ects

Course contents

This course deals with current and general scientific and legal topics and issues, such as the nature and role of legal science and fundamental issues related to legal science.

Objective of the course

After passing the course, the student will have acquired knowledge about fundamental scientific concepts and traditions, about legal science as a scientific topic and tradition and about various legal science traditions. Each student will be able to formulate issues of relevance to their PhD project. Moreover, the course contributes to developing the student to participate in academic discussions nationally as well as internationally.

Language of instruction

The language of instruction varies between Norwegian and English depending on the participants.

Teaching methods

The teaching consists of discussions in seminar form over a two-day period.

Attendance and active participation in the teaching are compulsory. The term active participation means that the students attempt to link the various themes raised to their own projects and explain this.

In addition, it is expected that all the students present articles for discussion during the seminar teaching, in line with the guidelines for the reading seminar.