Contents - Faculty of Law - University of Cambridge
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(iv)(v)(vi)(vii)Is either utilitarianism or Kantianism helpful for understanding the nature <strong>of</strong> legal rights?Does the identification <strong>of</strong> legal rights depend on moral judgments?Can children have any legal rights? Can animals have such rights?Can nonexistent beings such as dead people and members <strong>of</strong> future generations have any legal rights? Whendo such rights exist (if at all)?3. Legal Objectivity(i)(ii)(iii)(iv)(v)(vi)What are the sundry dimensions <strong>of</strong> legal objectivity?Can legal objectivity obtain in different degrees?Is the objectivity <strong>of</strong> the law desirable?How does the property <strong>of</strong> objectivity relate to Fuller’s principles <strong>of</strong> legality?How is law’s moral authority connected to the property <strong>of</strong> objectivity?Do issues relating to objectivity have any bearing on broader jurisprudential debates?4. Capital Punishment(i)(ii)(iii)(iv)(v)What are the principal arguments for and against the death penalty?Is the administration <strong>of</strong> capital punishment morally defensible?Must a theory <strong>of</strong> capital punishment be an <strong>of</strong>fshoot <strong>of</strong> a general theory <strong>of</strong> punishment?How do debates over capital punishment illuminate broader controversies over consequentialism versusdeontology?How do debates over capital punishment connect with moral philosophers’ theories <strong>of</strong> evil?5. The Obligation to Obey the <strong>Law</strong>(i) Is there a comprehensive defeasible moral obligation to obey the law?(ii) When there is a moral obligation to obey the law, what are the factors that underpin such an obligation?(iii) Is any general theory adequate to determine when laws should be obeyed and when they should not?(iv) To what extent does the benignity <strong>of</strong> a system <strong>of</strong> governance affect the existence or inexistence <strong>of</strong> anobligation to obey the law?READINGFreedom:Benn, A Theory <strong>of</strong> FreedomBerlin, Four Essays on LibertyCarter, A Measure <strong>of</strong> FreedomCarter, Kramer, & Steiner (eds), Freedom: A Philosophical AnthologyFlathman, The Philosophy and Politics <strong>of</strong> FreedomGriffiths (ed), Of LibertyKramer, The Quality <strong>of</strong> FreedomMiller (ed.), The Liberty ReaderPettit, Republicanism: A Theory <strong>of</strong> Freedom and GovernmentPettit, A Theory <strong>of</strong> FreedomSkinner, Liberty before LiberalismSteiner, An Essay on Rights104
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