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Identical coursesLegal Theory (Zürich University) (B-KUL-C0OP6A)
English
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Universität ZürichAims
The module offers an outline of key issues of a theoretical reflection of law and justice. It will discuss some historical examples of the evolving theoretical reflection of law and its ethical foundations. In addition, central analytical and normative problems will be considered concerning the structure and content of law and its relation to ethical thought. A special focus of attention will be contemporary cognitive science and its impact on the understanding and conceptualisation of law, including the structure and origin of moral cognition and the problem of free will.
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6 ects. Legal Theory (Zürich University) (B-KUL-C0OP6a)
EnglishFormat: LectureFirst termN. Content
The course will offer a critical assessment of these approaches that form one of the most important issues in the contemporary reflection about law. Serious thought on these matters, it will be argued, leads to central problems of our human self- understanding that are of foundational importance for our concept of law. The theoretical reflection and its results will be exemplified by concrete cases including target killings, torture and other issues of civil, criminal, public law and the adjudication of human rights.
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Evaluation: Legal Theory (Zürich University) (B-KUL-C2OP6a)
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The grading scale of this course unit is pass/fail.
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