HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - Dwarkin, Legal Positivism, Judicial Restraint
13 Nov 2012
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Thursday, december 6th lassonde a, 9:00 a. m. till 11:30. Last lecture: monday, december 3rd: last day of classes. November 26th: test on fuller, dwarkin, and the three cases. Appendix 3, which gives the amendments to the us constitution. This is relevant to dwarkin and the dronenburg case. Like fuller, a formidable opponent of legal positivism. He"s a participant in political and legal life. He"s considered one of the most illustrious contemporary legal positivists. He"s engaged with legal and political theory: comments at length about the. Us supreme court, judges, the intensely political issues in the us, and he writes many books and articles. Believes in liberal politics and is a natural theorist. Hart first met dwarkin when he was a law student at harvard. He found dwarkin to be a brilliant opponent: he spent most of his life trying to answer dwarkin"s criticisms against.
