POS 5021 Legal Ethics
This course examines the relationship between ethics and the legal system. It pays special attention to the political context within which this relationship is situated. The course is concerned with such questions as: how are ethical discussions informed by categories such as class, race and gender? Should they be? What is the relationship between law and morals? What are the limits of that relationship, if any? In addition to a comprehensive approach to controversial issues in legal ethics, the course also considers classical readings in the Philosophy of Law.