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Overview:<\/strong>\u00a0Continues Jurisprudence by deepening key legal concepts introduced earlier. Learn more about Jurisprudence \u2013 II (Legal Concepts)\u00a0(K-2001)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Objectives:<\/strong> To analyze foundational legal notions: legal personality, rights & duties, possession, ownership, liability, and the relationship between law and morality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outcomes:<\/strong> Students will be able to differentiate \u2018legal rights\u2019 (e.g. claim, liberty, power) and duties; explain possession and ownership; and discuss how law enforces morality.<\/em> For example, they might explain that \u201clegal persons\u201d include corporations and states, not just humans, or compare \u201cnatural persons\u201d vs \u201cjuristic persons\u201d. They will understand \u201cmens rea\u201d vs \u201ctortious liability\u201d as aspects of liability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Syllabus (Topics):<\/strong> Per CCSU:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Legal Personality:<\/strong>\u00a0Nature (subject, object of rights), theories (fiction\/realist). Distinguish natural vs. juristic persons (corporations, animals).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Legal Rights & Duties:<\/strong>\u00a0Kinds of rights (privilege, claim, power, immunity in Hohfeld\u2019s scheme); their basis (moral, conventional, legal). Relationship between rights and duties (if A has a right, B owes a duty).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Possession:<\/strong>\u00a0Theories (control vs intention to possess); possession in fact vs. in law; continuing trespass vs. recovered trespass.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Ownership:<\/strong>\u00a0Definition, incidents (usus, fructus, abusus); how ownership conveys powers (sell, gift, will). Distinguish ownership vs. possession.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Liability:<\/strong>\u00a0Types (Remedial vs. Penal liability, strict, vicarious). Mens rea in civil vs. penal law (overlap with tort vs. crime).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Law and Justice:<\/strong>\u00a0Judicial administration (courts, fairness in procedure); Theories of Punishment (retributive, deterrence, reformative).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Concept of State & Sovereignty:<\/strong>\u00a0Origin of state, characteristics of sovereignty (internal vs. external), Hans Kelsen\u2019s \u201corder of norms\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Law and Morality:<\/strong>\u00a0How law enforces morality (legal moralism vs. liberal views); examples (e.g. prohibition laws, or absence of laws on personal morality).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Sources of Law:<\/strong>\u00a0Custom (U.C. Saxena, influence of consuetudinary law), Precedent (binding vs persuasive), Legislation (judicial interpretation).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Recommended Texts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • Bodenheimer, Dias, Friedman, Lloyd, Paton, Salmond<\/em>\u00a0(same as Juris I).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Mahajan, Tripathi<\/em>\u00a0(Jurisprudence texts, listed in semester I reading).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Case readers on jurisprudence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Overview:\u00a0Continues Jurisprudence by deepening key legal concepts introduced earlier. Learn more about Jurisprudence \u2013 II (Legal Concepts)\u00a0(K-2001) Objectives: To analyze foundational legal notions: legal personality, rights & duties, possession, ownership, liability, and the relationship between law and morality. 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