Changes in the schedule are probable. Be sure to check with your TA if you miss class announcements. “Reference materials” are not required reading, but you will need them in class.
Thursday January 18
Introduction
Levinson, On Interpretation: The Adultery Clause of the Ten Commandments
[handout]
Monday January 22 - Thursday January 25
Egypt
The Book of the Dead (handout)
The Loyalist Instruction from the Sehetepibre Stela (handout)
Egyptian
Myths
Monday, January 29
Mesopotamia
Prologue to Code of Hammurabi (handout)
Reference materials:
Code of Hammurabi
Thursday, February 1
Ancient Hebrews
Excerpts from
Exodus
Greeks
Monday February 5
Iliad (will be handed out on 2/5)
Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays
Recommended: Western Legal Theory, ch. 1 (1-19)
Thursday February 8
Plato, Apology (in Trial and Death of Socrates)
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 (recommended)
Cicero, De Legibus (CP)
Reference materials: Laws of the Twelve Tables (CP)
First Paper
Due February 19
Roman Empire - Early Christianity
Thursday February 22 - Monday February 26
Augustine, Excerpts
from City of God
Recommended: Western Legal Theory, 63-78
Thursday March 1 - 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)
Recommended: Western Legal Theory, ch. 3 - Early Middle Ages
pp.
79-96
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