PHILOSOPHY OF LAW PHLN12L First Semester, AY 2013-2014 Angeli A. Vigo aav.philo@gmail.

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Grading system: Recitation MidtermsFinals40% 30% 30% PART ONE: LEGAL THEORY I. Natural law vs. Positivism H.L.A. Hart, Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals, 71 HARV. L. REV 593 (1958) Lon L. Fuller, Positivism and Fidelity to Law, 71 HARV. L. REV 630 (1959) Brian Bix, Natural Law Theory Jules Coleman & Brian Leiter, Legal Positivism Robert H. Jackson, Opening Address for the Nuremberg http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/jackson.html Charles Wyzanski, Nuremberg: A Fair Trial? Republic v. Ramas, G.R. No. 104768. July 21, 2003, (see also Puno, separate opinion) II. Modern Theories of Law A. Realism Eric Engle, A Primer on Left Legal Theory: Realism, Marxism and Pomo, 3 CRITICAL STUD. J. 64 Grant Gilmore, Legal Realism: Its Cause and Cure, 70 YALE L. J. 1037 (1961) Antonin Scalia, The Rule of Law as Law of Rules 56 U. CHI. L. REV 1175 Brian Leiter, Legal Realism B. Critical Legal Studies Jerry Anderson, Law School Enters the Matrix: Teaching Critical Legal Studies, 54 J. Legal Educ. 201 (2004) Trials,

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Guyora Binder, Critical Legal Studies C. Law and Economics Jon Hanson and Melissa Hart, Law and Economics III. Theories of Justice A. Utilitarianism Chs. I, IV, Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1780), available at http://www.econlib.org/library/Bentham/bnthPML.html B. Libertarianism Jason Lloyd, Let There Be Justice: A Thomistic Assessment of Utilitarianism and Libertarianism, 8 TEX. REV. L. & POL. 229 (2003) Richard Wright, Principles of Justice, 75 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1859 (2000) C. Rawls Distributive Justice Lawrence Solum, Situating Political Liberalism, 69 CHI-KENT L. REV 549 (1994) Richard Arneson, Rawls, Responsibility, and Distributive Justice, available at http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/rarneson/RawlsResponsibilityproof.pdf

PART TWO: DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE LEGAL SYSTEM I. History and Law Jim Philips, Why Legal History Matters, available at http://www.law.utoronto.ca/documents/Phillips/Phillips_-_Why_Legal_History_Matters.pdf Richard Posner, Past-Dependency, Pragmatism and Critique of History in Adjudication and Legal Scholarship, 67 U. CHI. L. REV. 573 (2000) II. The Philippines as a Mixed Jurisdiction Ryan McGonigle, The Role of Precedents in Mixed Jurisdictions: A Comparative Analysis of Louisiana and the Philippines, available at http://www.ejcl.org/62/art62-1.pdf In re Shoop, 41 Phil. 213 (1920) III. Constitutional Law

A. Brief History Raul Pangalangan, Anointing Power with Piety: People Power, Democracy and the Rule of Law, in Law and Newly Restored Democracies, IDE Asian Law Series No. 13, available at http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Download/Als/pdf/13.pdf B. The Nature of the Constitution Preamble, CONST. Johann Carlos Barcena, Easing the Counter-Majoritarian Difficulty: The Judiciary in a Developing Democracy, 84 Phil. L.J. 82 883-890 (2010) available at http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/law/article/viewFile/2261/2156 Chapter 12, Marites Vitug & Criselda Yabes, Our Rights, Our Victories: Landmark Cases in the Supreme Court C. The Supreme Court and the Constitution 1,4,5, art. 8 CONST. Art. 8 CIV. CODE Anna Leah Fidelis Castaeda, The Origins of Philippine Judicial Review, 46 Ateneo L.J 121 (2001) STEPHEN BREYER, MAKING OUR DEMOCRACY WORK, pp. 3-21 Angara v. Electoral Commission D. Interpretation Philipp Bobbitt, Constitutional law and interpretation Antonin Scalia, The Role of Federal Courts in Interpreting the Constitution Ronald Dworkin, A Comment to Scalia E. Freedom of Religion 4,5, CONST. Raul Pangalangan, Problems in Transplantation, 82 PHIL. L.J. 1 available at http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/law/article/viewFile/2365/2250

IV. Civil Law A. Influence of Roman Law Peter Hamilton, The Spanish Civil Code, 31 Harv. L. Rev. 1089 (1918) Juan Javier del Granado, The Genius of Roman Law, 13 SAN DIEGO INTL L.J. 301 (2011 Ch.3, The Rise of the Civil Law System , in PACIFICO AGABIN, MESTIZO: THE STORY OF THE PHILIPPINE LEGAL SYSTEM (2011)

B. Civil law and economics Art. 36, FAMILY CODE Chi Ming Tsoi v. Court of Appeals, 266 SCRA 324 (1997) Florin Hilbay, Chi Ming Choices, Article 36: A Coasean Dialogue, 82 PHIL. L.J. 68 (2007), available at http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/law/article/viewFile/2352/2240

V. Criminal Law Anthony M. Dillof, Modal Retributivism: A Theory of Sanctions for Attempts and Other Criminal Wrongs, 45 U. RICH. L. REV. (2011) John Bronsteen, Retributions Role, 84 IND. L.J. 1129 (2009)