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MURDOCH-S2-INT-2018-ONGOING
Requisites
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Learning outcomes
1.
Recognise and describe key theories about the law;
2.
Explain the links between a theory of law and how the legal system has operated or is operating;
3.
Effectively structure a legal argument; and
4.
Demonstrate the capacity to reflect on your own “relationship” with the law.
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Unit content:
The unit covers the following topics: the Christian God as a basis for law in seventeenth-century England; the rise of Parliamentary sovereignty as a justification of the law; the role of positivism, and its underlying rationality, in shaping the law; twentieth-century versions of natural law; twentieth-century debates over “law as rules”; the increasing use of economics to justify law; feminist legal theories; and post-modern and post-structural legal theories.