Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests.

Word limits will be strictly applied and work above the word limit will not be marked. 

All assessments in the unit are to be submitted electronically. Plagiarism detection software is used in this unit.

Moderation

The convenor moderates all assessments. All Fail research essays are double marked.

Technology used

This unit will use i-learn and ECHO lectures. Students will be required to use a computer to interact with online research databases and web-based research tools.

Classes

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

There are two pre-recorded one-hour lectures per week (available through ECHO lectures).

Internal students must attend at least 10 tutorials and submit all assignments. 

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

Required and recommended resources

Prescribed Texts

Denise Meyerson, Jurisprudence (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2011).

Other essential reading

Details available on the i-learn site for LAW214.

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 (5thedn, Sweet and Maxwell, London, 2009).

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).

R Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (Duckworths, London, 1977).

R Dworkin, Law's Empire (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1986).

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

S Guest, Ronald Dworkin (2^nd edn, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1997).

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

H L A Hart, The Concept of Law (2^nd ed, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1994).

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).