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Postgraduate Course: Traditions of Legal Inquiry (LAWS11122)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Law CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryLegal concepts change through time as a result of reflection on the appropriateness of conceptual structures to help regulate and shape the social world. That reflection is carried out in different forms and at a different pace by courts, legal doctrine and legal theorists. Theoretical reflection and historical research are, therefore, intertwined as complementary aspects of any investigation on the foundations of any given legal concept, including the concept of law. The idea of legal traditions of rational inquiry brings that connection between legal theory and legal history home.
The course aims at investigating precisely what a tradition of rational inquiry is and also at identifying paradigmatic examples of rational traditions of legal inquiry
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
The course will help students develop:
(a) the ability to think law on a more abstract level in such a way as to help both legal interpretation of positive law and the criticism of positive law
(b) the ability to understand the interconnections between rationality and history in the particular context of a legal investigation
(c) skills of critical and contextual analysis of theoretical and historical texts
(d) written and oral skills, particularly in relation to building arguments about the best historical and theoretical interpretation of a particular text.

Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsLegal Traditions,Legal History,Rational Tradition,Legal Theory
Contacts
Course organiserProf John Cairns
Tel: (0131 6)50 2065
Email: John.Cairns@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Olivia Hayes
Tel: (0131 6)50 9588
Email: Olivia.Hayes@ed.ac.uk
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