Jurisprudence
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University · LL.B. Semester 2 · LLB 102
Unit I — Nature, Concept and Scope of Jurisprudence
a. What is jurisprudence and why is jurisprudence? · b. Descriptive, normative and critical legal theory · c. Concept of law-Classical Indian and Islamic schools · d. Why obey the law, law as an Anarchy or an Obligation or Law as a Social Fact · e. Law and Morality i. judicial morality, moral and semantic questions relating to judge’s duty and choice, moral realism ii. Hart v Fuller and Hart v Devlin iii. Natural law v Legal Positivism
Unit II — Jurisprudential Schools of Thought
a. Natural law i. Classical natural law theory-Aristotle Plato St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas ii. Hard and Soft natural law iii. Natural law in political philosophy-Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau iv. Decline of natural law · b. Legal positivism i. Classical legal positivism-Sir Jeremy Benthamand John Austin, their comparison. ii. Modern legal positivism-H.L.AHart, Hans Kelson, Joseph Raz · c. Legal Realism
Unit III — Lawand Social Theory
a. The socio logical perspective i. Roscoe Pound, Eugene Ehlrich, Emile Durkheim (social solidarity and law) ii. Max Weber (typology of law, theory of legitimate domination, capitalism and law) iii. Karl Marx (ideology and legal fetishism); Jürgen Habermas (concept of modern state and law) iv. Agreement on Subsidies and Counter vailing Measures · b. Anthropological/ Historical Jurisprudence · c. Feminist Jurisprudence · d. Post Modernism · e. Why do legal systems differ? · f. Savigny, Sir Henry Maine, Max Gluckman
Unit IV — Concepts
a. Rights and duties i. What is a Right? Theories of Rights ii. Hohfeld’s Analysis iii. Human rights, Animal rights · b. Personality · c. Property, Possession and Ownership · d. Negligence · e. Punishment: Retributivism- weak and strong, Consequentialism, restoration · f. Theories of Justice-Utilitarianism, Libertarianism,Concept of equality and Social justice · g. Effectiveness of Precedents
- Rights and Duties Meaning of Rights Characteristics of legal Rights Rights and Duties correlations
- Persons Nature of Personality
- Property Philosophical Theories of Property Kinds of Property
- Possession Concept of Possession
- Ownership Definition Characteristics of Ownership Possession and Ownership Austin's conception of Ownership Different kinds of Ownership