Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Jurisprudence: Introduction to the Philosophy of Law
This online course explored basic jurisprudential positions and how to use them to assess arguments about how to apply and reform the law. The course covered the relationship between law and morality, neuroscience and its impact on legal responsibility, how the law addresses personal responsibility, the economic analysis of law and the limits of the law in the context of contemporary social issues.
5 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dr Kenneth Ehrenberg
Reader in Public Law and Legal Theory
University of Surrey
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore the concept of responsibility in law in relation to inadvertent actions.
- Reflect critically on how judges can guide citizens in their actions and the avoidance of negligent or inadvertent actions.
- Explain the difference between consequentialist and non-consequentialist normative reasoning.
- Describe the ‘economic analysis of law’ approach to what the law should be like and why.
- Compare and contrast the economic analysis of law to a traditional, rights-based approach.
- Discuss fundamental questions regarding the limits of law, with an emphasis on consent and autonomy.
- Reflect on how morality, law, and enforcement relate to each other in the context of contemporary social issues.
- Evaluate the uses and limitations of neuroscientific data in courts.
- Explain the relationship between neuroscientific data and legal responsibility.
- Explore the relationship between law and morality.
- Explain basic jurisprudential positions and how to use them to assess arguments about how to apply and reform the law.
- Debate moral and legal scenarios using normative reasoning.
- Compare and contrast four key theories in legal philosophy: strong and weak natural law, and classic and modern legal positivism.
Syllabus
- Unjust laws and legal validity.
- Legal responsibility and developments in neuroscience.
- Legal responsibility for inadvertent actions.
- Economic analysis of law.
- Law and contemporary social issues.
Issued on 13th March 2023
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