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TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

Thursday January 18
Introduction
Levinson, On Interpretation: The Adultery Clause  of the Ten Commandments [handout]
 
Monday January 22

Egypt
J. O'Brien, Ancient Egypt
B. Winer, Tombs and Religion
Ammut, Ma'at, Osiris, Re, Thoth, ankh, feather, cartouche
Handout:
The Judgment of the Dead
The Loyalist Instruction from the Sehetepibre Stela
 
Thursday January 25
Mesopotamia
Henberg, Lex Talionis (CP)
Prologue to Code of Hammurabi (CP)
Reference materials:
Code of Hammurabi (CP) Many of these specific laws are mentioned in the
Henburg selection.

Monday, January 29
Ancient Hebrews
Old Testament (CP)
Roberts, History of the World: the Hebrews (CP)

Greeks
 
 Thursday February 1
 Iliad (CP)
 Sophocles, Antigone, in Three Theban Plays
 
Monday February 5
Plato, Apology  (in Trial and Death of Socrates)
Recommended: Western Legal Theory,  ch. 1 (1-19)

 Thursday February 8
Aeschylus, Eumenides (in the Oresteia)

Monday February12
Crito, Phaedo (in Trial and Death of Socrates)
Recommended: Western Legal Theory, pp. 20-38
Thursday February 15
Plato, Gorgias pp. 27-50
 

Roman Republic
Monday February 19
Western Legal Theory, 39-63
Cicero, De Legibus (CP)
Reference materials:   Laws of the Twelve Tables (CP)
First Paper Due February 19
 
Roman Empire - Early Christianity
Monday February 26
Recommended:  Western Legal Theory, 63-78
Thursday March 1
Recommended:  Western Legal Theory, ch. 3 - Early Middle Ages pp.
79-96
 
Monday March 5
Institutes of Justinian, Preamble (CP)
Laws of Aethelstan (CP)
Reference materials
Institutes of Justinian, Book I, I&II (CP)
Institutes of Justinian - Book II - Of Things (CP)
 

Thursday March 8
Midterm (firm date)

SPRING BREAK

High Middle Ages
 Monday  March 19
Murder of Thomas Becket (CP)
Reference materials:
Constitutions of Clarendon (CP)
Recommended:  Western Legal Theory, ch. 4 pp. 120-131

Thursday March 22
 
Magna Carta (CP)
Reference materials:
Assize of Clarendon (CP)
Recommended:  Western Legal Theory, ch. 4 pp. 131-134
 

Monday March 26
Preface to Estates in Land and Future Interests (CP)
 
Thursday March 29
Aquinas, Summa Theologica (CP)
Recommended:  Western Legal Theory ch. 4 pp. 134-158

Monday-Thursday April 2-5
Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
Reference materials:
Act of Supremacy of Henry VIII (CP)
Treasons Act of Henry VIII (CP)

Renaissance and Reformation
Monday – Thursday April  9-12
Bushell's Case (CP)
Recommended:  Western Legal Theory 232-238 (Rule of Law)
 
SECOND PAPER DUE APRIL 12

SOCIAL CONTRACT

Monday-Thursday April 16-19
Western Legal Theory 208-215
Hobbes, Leviathan (CP)
English Bill of Rights (CP)
 
Monday-Thursday April 23-26
Locke, ch. 2, 8, 9 (CP)
Western Legal Theory 215-229

Monday April 30
Review

May 7
FINAL EXAM