Universität Wien

030107 KU An Introduction to Legal Theory (2023S)

6.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 3 - Rechtswissenschaften
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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An/Abmeldung

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Details

max. 40 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Dienstag 14.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal U16 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Montag 20.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal U16 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Dienstag 21.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal U16 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Montag 27.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal U16 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Dienstag 28.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal U16 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Montag 17.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal U16 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Dienstag 18.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal U16 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Montag 24.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal U16 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Dienstag 25.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal U16 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Dienstag 02.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal U16 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Montag 08.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal U16 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Dienstag 09.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal U16 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Montag 15.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal U16 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Dienstag 16.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal U16 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Montag 22.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal U16 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Dienstag 23.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal U16 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Montag 05.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal U16 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Dienstag 06.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal U16 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Montag 12.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal U16 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Dienstag 13.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal U16 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Montag 19.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal U16 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Dienstag 20.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal U16 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

This class begins with a claim. It says that legal theory--as a genre--is intimately tied to the crisis of legal knowledge that arose when nineteenth "century legal science" came under attack on both sides of the Atlantic. This moment of attack is epitomized by the ascendency of the Freirechtsbewegung in Germany and the Legal Realist revolution in America. To this day, the impact of the latter on the intellectual standing of "legal science" has been devastating.
One school of legal thought attempted to accommodate some of the challenges posed by both movements while also restoring the integrity of legal knowledge. This school is legal positivism. Not by accident, in the narrative underlying this class, positivism is cast in the role of the hero of modern legal theory. It defends the intellectual respectability of legal analysis proper vis-à-vis more open-ended modes of resolving cases with resort to moral reasoning or policy analysis.
Not surprisingly, the focus of modern legal theory has frequently rested on the question whether legal positivism is defensible. For if legal positivism is sound, legal knowledge is possible.
But what if legal positivism is doomed to failure?
The class will study samples of legal theory, thereby drawing, among other things, on American legal realism, Kelsenian and contemporary legal positivism, Ronald Dworkin, Critical Legal Studies and Social Systems' Theory. The class offers a thoroughly transatlantic introduction to legal theory.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Classroom participation, written final exam (2 hours).

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Participation in class discussions, final exam (1.5 hours)

Prüfungsstoff

Reading materials

Literatur

Downloadable resources on moodle

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mo 13.02.2023 13:47