Jurisprudence

Jurisprudence Order Description Apply your approved topic* to the ideas and arguments raised in your chosen TED talk. Being as specific as possible, what connections, influences, contradictions or insights emerge? Write in a Jurisprudential Manner. ( I will attach the brief detailing ted talks etc and the approved topic list) JURISPRUDENCE LIST OF APPROVED TOPICS No Topic 1. American legal realism 2. Aquinas and Christian naturalism 3. Austin’s development of Bentham 4. Austin's command theory 5. Catherine MacKinnon 6. Cicero and naturalism 7. Comparative views of law within feminism 8. Contemporary natural law 9. Critical legal studies 10. Critical legal studies and legal feminism 11. Critical race theory 12. Cultural feminism 13. Deconstructing law 14. Derrida & legal theory 15. Dworkin’s interpretive theory of law 16. Dworkin’s objections to Hart 17. Dworkin’s recent works 18. Dworkin on rights 19. Duncan Kennedy and the philosophy of legal education 20. The English social contract tradition 21. Finnis and Fuller contrasted 22. Finnis's revival of natural law 23. Foucault and legal theory 24. French feminism & legal theory 25. Fuller's procedural natural law 26. Gender and biology in legal theory 27. Hart/Devlin debate 28. Hart/Fuller debate 29. Hart's core and penumbra 30. Hart's objections to Dworkin 31. Hart's offence principle 32. Hart's open texture 33. Hart's primary/secondary rules 34. Hart’s critique of Kelsen 35. The legal theory of Holmes O.W. 36. Holmes as progenitor of the realist movement 37. Hobbes’ social contract 38. Inclusive and exclusive positivism 39. Influence of the Frankfurt School on legal theory 40. Fuller’s internal morality of law 41. Jerome Frank, realism and psychology 42. Judges as law makers in legal theory 43. Jurisprudence, economics and law 44. Justice as a Platonic ideal 45. Kantian justice 46. Kant’s influence on legal theory 47. Kelman, Mark 48. Kelsen and the pure theory 49. Kelsen and Austin compared 50. Kelsen’s theory applied in legal cases 51. Kennedy's legal culture 52. Law & the Leviathan (Hobbes) 53. Law as a commodity (Marx) 54. Lyotard and legal theory 55. Legal anthropology and legal theory 56. Legal positivism – its origins 57. Leiter’s development of legal realism 58. Liberal feminism 59. Llewellyn and the renewal of American Jurisprudence 60. Locke’s social contract 61. Locke, libertarianism and Nozick 62. Lockean rights and legal theory 63. Luce Irigaray 64. Kelman, Mark 65. Marx: law and ideology 66. Marxist influences on legal theory 67. Marxist jurisprudence 68. Marx’s relevance to contemporary legal culture 69. Marx’s analysis of the law of his time 70. Mill’s departure from Bentham 71. Mill's harm principle 72. Mill’s influence in the Hart/Devlin debate 73. Mill and the liberal state 74. Mill’s influence on feminist thought 75. Natural law principles and canon law 76. Nietzsche's influence on legal theory 77. Nozickean justice 78. Nozick and liberal legal theory 79. Nozick’s attack on distributive justice 80. Olivecrona, Karl 81. Patriarchy 82. Plato’s analogy of the cave 83. Plato's Laws 84. Plato and positive liberty (Berlin) 85. Plato's Republic 86. Plato’s dialogues and legal theory 87. Posner's contribution to legal theory 88. Postmodernism and legal theory 89. Postmodernism, law and Lyotard 90. Postmodern feminism 91. Punishment and utilitarianism 92. Radical feminism 93. Rawls' distributive justice 94. Rawls' primary goods 95. Rawls and the social contract 96. Rawls and Nozick compared 97. Raz's purity and coherence of legal theory 98. Rex/Hercules contrasted 99. Rousseau, Law & the General Will 100. Scholastic law – the medievalists 101. Significance of Bentham today 102. Significance of Hart today 103. Stanley Fish and interpretation 104. Stoic influence on legal theory 105. The Christian Fathers 106. Theories of punishment 107. Thomism and neo-Thomism 108. Unger's alternative legal system 109. Utilitarianism and legal theory 110. Utilitarianism, law and economics 111. Weber's contribution to law 112. Wollstonecraft’s influence on feminist theory