? Credit Points : 40  ? SCQF Level : 10  ? Acronym : LAW-3-LY0009

This course deals with the history of philosophical and sociological ideas concerning law. The approach will be through a careful reading of selected texts of historical significance in the development of philosophical and/or sociological theories of law within one or more leading traditions of thought. A distinct body of thought will be reviewed in each of the Autumn and Spring Terms. Materials of each term will be particularly prescribed from year to year, but may for example include: Buchanan, Locke and Stair; Writings of the Scottish Enlightenment (Hume and Smith and their predecessors and successors); Ideas of law and economy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; This history of criminology; Formalism and rule-scepticism in Europe and America.

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Home subject area

Law, (School of Law, Schedule F)

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Full Year (Blocks 1-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 20 weeks

See Course Guide

See Course Guide

The Course Secretary should be the first point of contact for all enquiries.

Course Secretary

Ms Rozanne Luty
Tel : (0131 6)50 2056
Email : Rozanne.Luty@ed.ac.uk

Course Organiser

Prof John Cairns
Tel : (0131 6)50 2065
Email : John.Cairns@ed.ac.uk

School Website : http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/

College Website : http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/