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Question: 'Oral Assessment on domestic responses to European Union Law'
Details: - Mark: 73% | Course: Jurisprudence | Year: 2nd/3rd | Words: 2540 | References: No | Date written: November, 2004 | Date submitted: February 16, 2009 | Coursework ID: 216
Question: Critically assess the validity of Dworkin’s criticisms towards positivism and whether natural law theory may itself be disputed.
Details: - Mark: 72% | Course: Jurisprudence | Year: 2nd/3rd | Words: 2644 | References: Yes | Date written: January, 2010 | Date submitted: February 15, 2011 | Coursework ID: 647
Question: Do you agree with Raz that the key to understanding law lies in understanding authority and, given that, Dworkin’s theory and the soft positivism of Hart’s Postscript must fail?
Details: - Mark: 72% | Course: Jurisprudence | Year: 2nd/3rd | Words: 2460 | References: No | Date written: Not available | Date submitted: April 05, 2011 | Coursework ID: 670
Question: 'If there is a point of view in which legal obligation is treated as at least presumptively moral obligation ... then such a viewpoint will constitute the central case of the legal viewpoint' (Finnis).
Discuss.
Details: - Mark: 71% | Course: Jurisprudence | Year: 2nd/3rd | Words: 2080 | References: No | Date written: Not available | Date submitted: April 05, 2011 | Coursework ID: 669
Question: Fuller writes of Austin: ‘Over and over again he teeters on the edge of an abandonment of the command theory… Yet he never takes the plunge. He does not take it because he had a sure insight that it would forfeit the black-and-white distinction between law and morality that was the whole object of his Lectures…’ (Lon L. Fuller, “Positivism and Fidelity to Law – A Reply to Professor Hart” (1958) 71 Harv. L. Rev. 630, p 640). Does this comment identify a weakness in legal positivism generally?
Details: - Mark: 70% | Course: Jurisprudence | Year: 2nd/3rd | Words: 2788 | References: Yes | Date written: January, 2000 | Date submitted: February 20, 2009 | Coursework ID: 407
Question: How can it be possible to increase one’s autonomy by surrendering one’s power to decide certain issues, as one does when accepting the authority of law? Wouldn’t that amount to saying one is more free when one is less free?
Details: - Mark: 70% | Course: Jurisprudence | Year: 2nd/3rd | Words: 1920 | References: No | Date written: Not available | Date submitted: April 05, 2011 | Coursework ID: 671
Question: What is ‘integrity’? How does it relate to Dworkin’s theory of interpretation?
Details: - Mark: 70% | Course: Jurisprudence | Year: 2nd/3rd | Words: 1429 | References: Yes | Date written: October, 2006 | Date submitted: October 07, 2011 | Coursework ID: 697
Question: What is the right answer thesis? Why is it attractive to Dworkin? Is it true?
Details: - Mark: 70% | Course: Jurisprudence | Year: 2nd/3rd | Words: 1716 | References: Yes | Date written: Not available | Date submitted: October 07, 2011 | Coursework ID: 698
Question: 'Group Assessment:Should parent’s be held responsible for the criminal acts of their children to a greater or lesser extent than the law at present commands?'
Details: - Mark: 67% | Course: Jurisprudence | Year: 1st | Words: 17232 | References: Yes | Date written: July, 1998 | Date submitted: February 16, 2009 | Coursework ID: 226
Question: Evaluate the changes that have occurred to the structure of the legal profession over the last ten years in Britain and develop an argument for the future fusion of solicitors and barristers.
Details: - Mark: 66% | Course: Jurisprudence | Year: 2nd/3rd | Words: 2051 | References: Yes | Date written: October, 2004 | Date submitted: October 20, 2008 | Coursework ID: 133
