Postgraduate Course: The Ethical Life of Legal Institutions: Law, Democracy and the Market (LAWS11144)
Course Outline
| School | School of Law |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | 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? |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
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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
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Additional Information
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| Keywords | Law and Politics, Legal Institutions, Democracy, Market |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Zenon Bankowski
Tel: (0131 6)50 2028
Email: Z.Bankowski@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Aimie Little
Tel: (0131 6)50 2010
Email: aimie.little@ed.ac.uk |
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