Introduction to North American Legal Systems

Code Cours
1920-FDL-LAW-EN-2006
Language of instruction
French, English
This course occurs in the following program(s)
Training officer(s)
JOHN HASKELL
Period

Présentation

Modalités

Forms of instruction

The assesment for this course will be a written final exam of 2 hours at the end of the semestre. (OPEN BOOK)

Evaluation
Examen : coeff. 1

Ressources

Bibliography

<b>Day One:</b>|||| Kennedy, Development Common Sense: <a>http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/dkennedy/publications/ruleoflaw.pdf</a>|||| Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, p. 101-159, and 215-266, <a>https://1000littlehammers.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/birth_of_biopolitics.pdf</a>|||| Kreitner, Towards a Political Economy of Money: <a>https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_XLhCgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PR5&amp;dq=roy+kreitner+Toward+a+Political+Economy+and+law&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwil3IbVou_QAhWnDcAKHcP-BTYQ6wEIGzAA#v=onepage&amp;q=roy%20kreitner%20Toward%20a%20Political%20Economy%20and%20law&amp;f=false</a>|||| Boltanski/Chiapello, The New Spirit of Capitalism, p. 165-272, <a>https://selforganizedseminar.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/boltanski_chiapello_capitalism.pdf</a>|||| Lazaretto, The Making of the Indebted Man, p. 13-160, <a>http://www.paulbarger.com/indebted.pdf</a>|||| <b>Day Two</b>:|| (Video) Philip Mirowski, Should Economists be Experts in Markets, or Experts in Human Nature, <a>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfbVPDNl7V4</a>|| (Video) Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, <a>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQuHSQXxsjM</a>|| Group Work: Begin practicing four question presentations: a) how do people approach an issue, b) what is the problem with this approach, c) how might it be done differently, and d) how would this new approach benefit us?|| Never Split the Difference, Voss: <a>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guZa7mQV1l0</a><b></b>|| <b>Day Three:</b>|| David Kennedy, The International Human Rights Regime: <a>http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/dkennedy/publications/Internation%20Human%20Rights%20Regime%20CUP%202012.pdf</a>|||| National Security Strategy 2001: <a>https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/63562.pdf</a>|||| Samuel Moyn, The International Law that is America: <a>http://www.temple.edu/law/ticlj/fall2013/Moyn_The%20InternationalLawThatisAmerica.pdf</a>|||| Antony Angie, The War on Terror and Iraq: <a>http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1344&amp;context=ohlj</a>|| <b>Day Six:</b>|| Coercion and Distribution, Robert Hale: <a>http://www.houseofrussell.com/legalhistory/alh/docs/hale.html</a>|||| Freedom and Constraint in Adjudication, Duncan Kennedy: <a>http://duncankennedy.net/documents/Freedom%20and%20Constraint%20in%20Adjudication_A%20Critical%20Phenomenology.pdf</a>