PHIL 327APhilosophy of Law: Part 1
- Faculty
- Arts
- Offered
- Spring
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1980–81 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Basic themes in the philosophy of law. Issues include the nature of law and its relation to morality and politics, legal reasoning, the justification of punishment, and theories of rights, responsibility and liability.
As printed in the 1991–92 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1980–81 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1991–92 to 1994–95 4 calendars
Basic themes in the philosophy of law. Issues include the nature of law and its relation to morality and politics, legal reasoning, the justification of punishment, and theories of rights, responsibility and liability.
Offered Spring · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1987–88 to 1990–91 4 calendars
An investigation of alternative views of law and legal reasoning forms the core of this course. Law's relations to - morality, social practice, and politics are considered. Important legal judgments as well as leading philosophers of law will be considered.
This is a required course for the Legal Studies Option.
3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1980–81 to 1986–87 7 calendars
An investigation of alternative views of law and legal reasoning forms the core of this course. Law's relations to morality, social practice, and politics are considered. Authors to be studied include Aquinas, Kant, Austin, and Hart. This is a required course for the Legal Studies Option..
Offered Fall · 0.5 credit