The Ethical Life of Legal Institutions: Law, Democracy and the Market (P02589)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : LAW-P-P02589

This course asks how individuals and societies, more specifically our liberal societies, live the life of law. What sort of ethical life do such people and institutions have? This raises questions of the rule of law, constitutionalism and democracy, justice and the market. These broad questions of social and political theory get broken down into moral and ethical questions. What does it mean to say that a society should be governed by rules? And what does that mean for our ethical lives and the institutions we live in?

? Keywords : Law and Politics
Legal Institutions
Democracy
Market

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Law, (School of Law, Schedule F)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The course will help students develop:
(a) An understanding of the relationship of social and political theory to legal questions
(b) conceptual tools that might help better to understand the practical and moral dilemmas of the rule of law
(c) a deeper understanding of the ethical implications of legal institutions