Part I: Law and Politics. General Themes. 1.1. Introduction to the Relationship between Law and Politics. 1.2 Sovereignty. 1.

3 The Rule of Law. 1.4 The 'Inner morality of law'. 1.5 Rights. Advanced Topics. 2.1 The Rule of Law and the State of Emergency.

2.2 Sovereignty and Globalisation. 2.3 Problems of the Rule of Law in Political Transitions. 2.4 Legalism and Legality. 2.5 Citizenship.

Tutorials. Part II Legal Reasoning. General Themes. 1.1 Introduction to Legal Reasoning. 1.2 Legal Formalism, Legal Realism, and the Open Texture of Law. 1.

3 Three Theories of Legal Reasoning: An Extended Formalism - MacCormick; Principles, Interpretation and Integrity - Dworkin; Critical Legal Analysis - Unger. Advanced Topics. 2.1 Justice, natural law and the limits of rule following. 2.2 Equality, difference and domination. 2.3 Judging in an unjust society.

2.4 Prejudice and discrimination. Tutorials. Part III Law and Modernity. General themes. 1.1 What is legal modernity? 1.2 Formal legal rationality and its institutions.

1.3 Dilemmas of modern law: materialisation of formal law and the law of the welfare state. 1.4 Law after modernity. Advanced Topics. 2.1 Juridification. 2.

2 Legitimation and Ideology. 2.3 Law, Power and Discipline. 2.4 Legal Pluralism. 2.5 Law and Reconciliation. Tutorials dvanced Topics.

2.1 Justice, natural law and the limits of rule following. 2.2 Equality, difference and domination. 2.3 Judging in an unjust society. 2.4 Prejudice and discrimination.

Tutorials. Part III Law and Modernity. General themes. 1.1 What is legal modernity? 1.2 Formal legal rationality and its institutions. 1.3 Dilemmas of modern law: materialisation of formal law and the law of the welfare state.

1.4 Law after modernity. Advanced Topics. 2.1 Juridification. 2.2 Legitimation and Ideology. 2.

3 Law, Power and Discipline. 2.4 Legal Pluralism. 2.5 Law and Reconciliation. Tutorials.