Jurisprudence

This course provides an overview of the major theories of legal philosophy, and contextualizes them within examples of judicial reasoning and explores their effect on positive law. The course uses old and modern cases, classic secondary commentary, and hypothetical opinions in order to demonstrate the reasoning of the different schools of thought and how they animate judicial and scholarly thinking. Prerequisite: Constitutional Law

Grading and Method of Evaluation:
The grade in the course will be based on a research paper. The paper may be utilized to fulfill the BLS upper-class writing requirements.

• Constitutional Law