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Traditions of Legal Thought (LAW-DS-TRALEG-24)

LAW-DS-TRALEG-24

Description

This seminar explores some of the most important traditions of legal thought. The purpose is not to examine authors and texts as part of a canon of legal philosophy, but to explore traditions of legal thinking, focusing on how lawyers and scholars have understood the law and what methods and frameworks they have developed in their disciplinary practice.
As a foundational seminar, it gives researchers an introductory overview to the diversity approaches in contemporary legal thought.  Each session is devoted to one family of approaches, linking representative works to different ways to conceptualize and undertake legal research.

1. Doctrinal and positivist approaches
2. Constitutionalism & rights discourse
3. European interest jurisprudence, American realism & critical legal studies
4. Law & economics
5. Law & society
6. Comparative law
7. Feminist approaches
8. Critical race theory
9. The postcolonial and decolonial turn
10. Post-anthropocentric approaches

Work required for credits: 
attendance & reading requirement assessed at the end of each class

Reading list: 
https://readinglist.eui.eu/leganto/public/39EUI_INST/lists/2236278370008406?auth=SAML&idpCode=SAML_LEGANTO

First, Second & Third Term: registration from 26 to 30 September 2024

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