LAW 933: Responsibility, Liability and Punishment Seminar
This seminar will consider ways in which different facets of the law, particularly tort and criminal law, express, refine, and sometimes depart from ordinary moral notions of agency, responsibility, and desert. Topics covered will include the different ways in which blame, shame, and culpability affect determinations of liability, responsibility and punishment in the law. Readings will consist primarily of standard legal materials (e.g. judicial opinions) and works by Bentham, Hart, Holmes and other prominent theorists. Enrollment limited. [3]