About this paper
| Paper title | Jurisprudence |
|---|---|
| Subject | Law |
| EFTS | 0.1125 |
| Points | 15 points |
| Teaching period | Semester 2 (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for 2027 have not yet been set |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- LAWS 201, LAWS 202, LAWS 203, and LAWS 204
- Pre or Corequisite
- Any 200-level LAWS paper not already passed
- Restriction
- LAWS 302
- Limited to
- LLB/LLB(Hons)
- Contact
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- Textbooks
All course readings for this paper are provided by the Faculty on Aoroa.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Lifelong learning, Scholarship, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Ethics, Environmental literacy, Information literacy, Research, Self-motivation, Teamwork.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate understanding of debates in modern legal theory, such as those between positivism and anti-positivism;
- Critically analyse various schools of jurisprudence;
- Apply ideas and techniques of critique, analysis, reasoning and clear prose writing drawn from traditions beyond law, such as philosophy and political theory;
- Evaluate laws and legal systems from a variety of different normative frameworks and develop a view regarding the relationship between law and justice;
- Demonstrate understanding of the competing historical, philosophical and cultural traditions which inform and underpin legal theory and our understanding of what law is, including international critical perspectives relating to race, class and/or gender.