Technology used

This unit will use iLearn and ECHO lectures.  All written communication with the convenor must be through iLearn.

Classes

For current updates, lecture times and classrooms please consult the MQ Timetables website: http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au

There is one two-hour lecture per week, which will be recorded through ECHO. Overhead slides will be made available on iLearn.

Internal students must attend at least 10 tutorials and submit all assignments. Students are not permitted to attend tutorials other than the tutorial group for which they are enrolled. If they do so, their attendance will not be recorded and will not count towards fulfilling the attendance requirement for the unit.

External students  must attend both days of the on-campus-session and submit all assignments.

Students who miss more than two tutorials or part/all of the on-campus session will not be eligible to pass the unit, unless they have an acceptable reason for being absent (such as documented illness on the day). If that is the case, they will be required to submit written work in lieu of the work covered in the missed classes.

Required and recommended resources

Prescribed Text

Denise Meyerson, Jurisprudence (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2011).  Available in hard copy and as an ebook.

Course Materials

Additional prescribed readings will be provided in e-Reserve.

 Supplementary Readings

There is no single text which covers all of the material dealt with in this unit, but the following books will be useful to you if you would like to read more about the topics. They will also help in the writing of your assignments for this unit. All of these books are on reserve in the Macquarie University Library.

S Berns, Concise Jurisprudence (Federation Press, Sydney, 1993).

B Bix, Jurisprudence: Theory and Context (3^rd edn, Sweet and Maxwell, London, 2003).

S Bottomley and S Bronitt, Law in Context (3^rd edn, Federation Press, Sydney, 2006).

R Cotterrell, The Politics of Jurisprudence (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1989).

H Davies and D Holdcroft, Jurisprudence: Texts and Commentary (Butterworths, London, 1991).

M Davies, Asking the Law Question (3^rd edn, Law Book Company, Sydney, 2008).

L Fuller, The Morality of Law (Revised edn, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1969).

J W Harris, Legal Philosophies (2^nd edn, Butterworths, London, 1997).

J M Kelly, A Short History of Western Legal Theory (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992).

D Lloyd, Lloyd's Introduction to Jurisprudence (8^th edn, Sweet and Maxwell, London, 2008).

H McCoubrey and N D White, Textbook on Jurisprudence (2^nd edn, Blackstone Press Ltd, London, 1996).

J G Murphy and J L Coleman, The Philosophy of Law (Revised edn, Westview Press, Boulder, San Francisco, and London, 1990).

D Patterson, A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory (Blackwell, Oxford, 1996).

J G Riddall, Jurisprudence (2^nd edn, Butterworths, London, 1999).

F Schauer, Thinking Like a Lawyer (Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 2009).

R Wacks, Understanding Jurisprudence (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005).

 Learning and Teaching Strategy

This unit is taught by lectures and tutorials. The lectures will provide an introduction to the reading. Students are expected to come to tutorials having done the week's reading and having prepared the tutorial questions for the week. They are also expected to participate in the tutorials. Class participation marks will be based on frequency of and quality of contribution to discussion; evidence of preparation for the tutorials; and performance in specific tasks assigned by the tutor. Mere attendance will not be sufficient to gain a passing grade for this component of the unit.