CoursesLaw and Philosophy
LAW 9730, Section 401, CRN 84095

Law and Philosophy

This graduate seminar explores recent work at the forefront of legal philosophyand adjacent fields, particularly moral, social, and political philosophy. 

In two-week units, seminar participants will discuss a recently published paper (in the first week) and in the second week, participants (along with other faculty) will meet with the paper’s author for further discussion in which students will be given priority. The goal is to explore new work in the field in great depth, and in so doing develop students’ analytic skills and their knowledge of the present state of the literature.

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