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:

  1. All reading and written assignments must be completed prior to the class in which they are due.
  2. Attendance is mandatory. Students are responsible for keeping current with the assignments. The professor is not responsible for keeping students current.
  3. Class participation is encouraged and will be rewarded academically.
  4. All assignments must be each student's workproduct.
  5. Readings will be from the text, cyberspace, or handouts.
  6. 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  
 7.15.04 Continued  
 7.20.04 MIDTERM in Class
 7.22.04 Continued  
 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