Content (Syllabus outline):

The concept of law:

• The concept of law between norm and coercion
• Legitimation and limination of state authority
• Violentia in potestas

The law and freedom (I. Kant, G.W.F. Hegel)

• The delimitation of law and moral
• Internal and external legislation
• The deduction of authorisation for coercion
• Abstract and speculative understanding of freedom
• Law and recognition
• Law and injustice
• Justification of punishment

The law and non-freedom (J.J.Rousseau, K. Marx)

• The law as the legitimation of inequality
• Social contract
• Alienation
• Citizen society and the state
• Law and ideology
• Human emancipation
• The concept of ownership

The law as form (J. Austin, H. Kelsen, H.L.A. Hart)

• Law as science
• Law between justice and order
• The problem of separating between the legislator and the wrongdoer
• Law as norm
• The use and emergence of law
• The hierarchy of powers
• Fundamental norm
• Primary and secondary rules

Law and post-modern period (R. Dworkin)

• The decline of the idea of system
• Rule and principle
• The meaning of interpretation for law
• Empirical and theoretical conflict
• The idea of Hercules
• Law as integrity