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Introduction to Jurisprudence
LSLW 525
- Professor: Jack Baldwin LeClair M.A., Ed.S., J.D.
- Office Hours: by appointment and posted on office door.
- Office Phone: 973.655.7953
- Email: leclairj@mail.montclair.edu (put
LSLW 525 in the subject line)
- Text 1: H/L = Hayman, Jr., Robert L. and Levitt, Nancy. Jurisprudence: Contemporary
Readings, Problems, and Narratives, (St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co.,
1995);
- Text 2: D = Dyson, Freeman. The Sun, The Genome, and The Internet., (New
York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999)
- Other Assignments - to be assigned on Blackboard.
purpose of this course:
- All reading and written assignments must be completed prior to the class in
which they are due.
- Attendance is mandatory. Students are responsible for keeping current with
the assignments. The professor is not responsible for keeping students current.
- Class participation is encouraged and will be rewarded academically.
- All assignments must be each student's workproduct.
- Readings will be from the text, cyberspace, or handouts.
- Graduate students will have more rigorous assignments and grading.
| Midterm Examination |
30% |
| Final Examination |
30% |
| Classroom Participation |
20% |
| Assignments |
20% |
| DATE |
ASSIGNMENT |
NOTES |
| 6.29.04 |
Introduction to Jurisprudence: concepts, history, and
development |
H/L: Prologue |
| 7.01.04 |
Legal Realism - Sociological - Holmes, Pound,
and Fowler |
H/L: 10-94 |
| 7.06.04 |
Law and Economics - Efficiency and Bargaining - Ayres, Straus,
Posner |
H/L: 95-166 |
| 7.08.04 |
Law and Science - Tribe, Goldberg, and Tanford |
H/L: 167-212; D: All |
| 7.13.04 |
Continued |
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| 7.15.04 |
Continued |
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| 7.20.04 |
MIDTERM |
in Class |
| 7.22.04 |
Continued |
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| 7.27.04 |
Critical Legal Studies - Kelman, Kennedy, Singer, Fiss, and
Balkin Pragmatism - Homes, Brennan, Posner, Lipkin, and Rorty; |
H/L: 213-264 |
| 7.29.04 |
Feminist Legal Theory - Sexual equality, Essentialism, Gender
and Equity |
H/L: 325-382 |
| 8.03.04 |
Critical Race Theory |
H/L: 383-451 |
| 8.05.04 |
FINAL EXAMINATION; Reconstruction of Jurisprudence |
H/L: 575- End |
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