Syllabus,
Fall
2013
8/20:
Thinking about legal systems
8/27: Gypsy Chapter.
Gypsy law: pp. 27-61
8/29: Gypsy
law: pp. 88-100, {Chapter 7}
9/3:
Amish Chapter
9/5: Jewish Chapter,
Reading
Assignment from primary sources
9/10: Islamic
Chapter, Introduction to Islamic
Law pp. 7-71 or Shari'a Chapters 6-12
or Between God and the Sultan Chapters 14-16.
{Wael
Hallaq
0/Francis
Galton 2}
9/12: "The Truth about Cats and Dogs: The Historicity of Early Islamic Law", Reliance of the Traveler or The Risala, at least 20 pages.
9/17: God as Legislator, Embedded and Polylegal Systems
9/19: "Private Creation and Enforcement of Law", {Viking Age Iceland, Bloodtaking and Peacemaking, Njalsaga}
9/24: Somali Chapter
9/26: Making Sense of English Law Enforcement in the Eighteenth Century
10/1:The Law in Classical Athens pp. 33-40, 53-66, 84-98, 161-164, 235-259
10/8: Athenian Chapter, {my outline of the Athens book}.
10/10: Puzzles of Irish Law, Early Irish Law: Preface, Chapters 6-8.
10/12-10/15: Fall break
10/17: Enforcement Mechanisms, Feud as Law Enforcement: Ancient and Modern, The Incentive to Enforce
10/22: Law in Imperial China:
Chapter 1, Chapter 2 parts 3,4, Chapter 3 parts 1-9, Chapter 4,
Chapter 6
Or, instead of Chapter 3, read The
T'ang Code pp. 14-38, which provides similar information
for an earlier code.
10/24: Your assigned cases from Law in Imperial China.
10/31: "From Imperial China to Cyberspace", China Chapter, {Essays on China's Legal Tradition Chapter }
11/5:The Invisible Hook, Chapters 1-3, 8. Drafts of papers due
11/7: Read the papers and be prepared to
discuss.
Dummy
Husbands of Cairo and Dummy Landowners of London
Evolution
of
the Policy and Function of Excommunication
11/12: Student Papers: Read the papers and be prepared to discuss.
Diadochus:
The Law and Empire in Ptolemaic Egypt
Bedouin Law
Law
in Medieval Russia
11/14: The Legal System
of the Ancient Maya
Politics,
Control and Legal Rules of the Maya Civilization
11/19: Juvenile
Justice
Environmental
Law in Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
Aboriginal
Australian Legal Systems
Experiments in Confucian Local Government
11/21: The Sicilian Mafia as a
Powerful Legal System
[Will be available starting late Wednesday afternoon
as a hardcopy on a shelf outside my office--my
confusion about who didn't want her paper webbed]
The
Italian-American Mafia as a Legal System
[distributed as hardcopy]
Omerta is not limited to Italians. For example ...
11/26: Last Class. Guarding the Guardians.
{}: Optional readings