Ethics: Where Does the Law Begin? The Case of the Speluncean Explorers. Recorded June 5, 2003
Week 1 Fuller (1949): ?The Case of the Speluncean Explorers? (142-156) The Nature of Law. Week 2 (Foundations) Bix (1996): ?Natural Law
Theory of the Law, The Case of the Speluncean Explorers . This is the first episode of my Introduction to the Law class. I quickly look at general theories of the law, and spend the balance of the time
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Fuller, "The Case of the Speluncean Explorers," Harvard Law Review (February 1949): 616?45. 4 For a critique of the sort of "contextualism" employed by Mack in this example, see immediately below.
Fuller, "The case of the Speluncean Explorers". 2. Samuel Thompson, "The Authority of Law". 3. Henry Maine, The Ancient Law 4.
You can read that first case here: The Speluncean Explorers . Now we're moving into a more deliberate and concrete study of the legal system, but it's still fun.
Lon Fuller's article, The Case of the Speluncean Explorers, is one of the most famous, and colorful, examples of approval by acquiescence. In the article, a handful of fictitious spelunkers are
Lon Fuller in the Case of the Speluncean Explorers . One of the fictitious judges, Justice Keen, has this to say about judicial creativity and ?filling in the gaps of the law
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