Last revised 4/2/99


Tuesday January 19
Introduction 

Levinson, On Interpretation: The Adultery Clause 
of the Ten Commandments [handout] 
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Friday-

Tuesday

 January 22- 26
Egypt 

Aldred, The Egyptians (CP)
Frankfort, Before Philosophy (CP)
The Loyalist Instruction from the Sehetepibre Stela (CP)
The Book of the Dead (CP)
 Reading Guide Timeline
Friday- 
January 29
Mespotamia and Ancient Hebrews
Henberg, Lex Talionis (CP)
Prologue to Code of Hammurabi (CP)
Exodus (CP)
Numbers, Leviticus (CP)
Roberts, History of the World: the Hebrews (CP)
Background:
Code of Hammurabi (CP)
 Reading Guide Timeline
Tuesday February 2
Greece
Homer, Iliad (CP)
Apology (in Trial and Death of Socrates)
 Reading Guide Timeline
Friday February 5
3:35-5:25
Aeschylus, Eumenides (in the Oresteia)
 Reading Guide Timeline
Tuesday February 9 Western Legal Theory, pp. 1-22
Crito, Phaedo (in Trial and Death of Socrates)		 Reading Guide Timeline
Friday February 12 Plato, Gorgias pp. 27-50 Reading Guide Timeline
Tuesday
February 16
Roman Republic
Western Legal Theory 39-63 
Cicero, De Legibus
Background:  Laws of the Twelve Tables
 Reading Guide Timeline.
Friday February 19
(firm date)
MUSEUM TRIP: Catch 3:30 shuttle at shuttle bus stop. We will be back on campus at about 5:45 pm.
Tuesday February 23
Western Legal Theory 63-78
Augustine, City of God (CP)
 Reading Guide Timeline
Friday-
Tuesday		 February 26-
March 2
Roman Empire and Early Christianity
 
Western Legal Theory, ch. 3 - Early Middle Ages pp. 79-113
Institutes of Justinian, Preamble, Book I, I&II (CP)
Institutes of Justinian - Book II - Of Things (CP)

Laws of Aethelstan
Friday
March 5
(firm date)
MIDTERM
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Tuesday
3:35-5:25
 March 9
Class cancelled for inclement weather.
Friday March 12
NO CLASS
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March 13-21
SPRING BREAK
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Tuesday March 23
High Middle Ages
Western Legal Theory, ch. 4 pp. 115-158
Murder of Thomas Becket (CP)
Background:
Constitutions of Clarendon (CP)
 Reading Guide 
Timeline
Friday March 26
Magna Carta (CP)

Background: Assize of Clarendon		 Reading Guide 
Timeline
Tuesday  March 30
Preface to Estates in Land and Future Interests
 Reading Guide Timeline
Friday April 2 NO CLASS
Tuesday April 6 Aquinas, Summa Theologica (CP) Reading Guide Timeline
Friday  April 9
Western Legal Theory, ch 5
Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
Background:
Act of Supremacy of Henry VIII (CP) 
Treasons Act of Henry VIII (CP)
 Reading Guide Timeline
Tuesday-
Friday		 April 13-16
NB: 4/13 class:  3:35-5:25		 Sophocles, Antigone in The Theban Plays .
Tuesday April 20
Western Legal Theory, ch. 6
Bushell's Case (CP)
 Reading Guide Timeline
Friday April 23 Hobbes, Leviathan Reading Guide Timeline
Tuesday April 27 Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government Reading Guide Timeline
 Friday April 30 Review and catch-up .

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