Postgraduate course
2021/2022
Contemporary Problems of Legal Theory
Type:
Elective course
Area of studies:
Law
Delivered by:
School of Theory of Law and Comparative Law
When:
1 year, 1 semester
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Instructors:
Rodion Belkovich
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
4
Contact hours:
20
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The aim of this course is to get the graduate students acquainted with contemporary problems in the field of legal theory through reading and discussing the articles published in academic journals and open-access preliminary drafts in leading academic aggregators. The texts chosen for the course make students go beyond their narrow research subjects and even beyond the legal agenda as such. This results in a more multidisciplinary approach in students' own studies which is essential today for a scholar who wants to do world-class research. The exact structure of the course and the choice of specific texts for each academic year is the lecturer's discretion. He chooses the texts and sends the links or the files themselves to the students. The students are expected to read the materials and engage during the seminar in a discussion of the topics raised in the texts.
Learning Objectives
- The aim of this course is to get the graduate students acquainted with contemporary problems in the field of legal theory through reading and discussing the articles published in academic journals and open-access preliminary drafts in leading academic aggregators.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrates the ability to create new research approaches, to put research in the context of international academic agenda.
- Demonstrates the understanding of causation in social relationships and legal regulation.
- Shows the ability to critically evaluate contemporary academic achievements; ability to choose the most effective strategies of multidisciplinary research.
- Shows the ability to detect the cutting-edge fields of social relationships and to compare the possible legislative responses towards these new phenomena.
Course Contents
- Free Will as a Matter of Law
- Collective Identity
- Paradoxes of Popular Rule
- Artificial Intelligence and Legal Agency
- Moral Dilemmas in Law
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Burdon, P. (2017). Hannah Arendt : Legal Theory and the Eichmann Trial. New York: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1598224
- Constituent power and the constitution. (2016). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198754527.003.0008
- Haenlein, M., & Kaplan, A. (2019). A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: On the Past, Present, and Future of Artificial Intelligence. California Management Review, 61(4), 5–14. https://doi.org/10.1177/0008125619864925
- McKenna, M., Pereboom, D., & Pereboom, D. (2016). Free Will : A Contemporary Introduction. New York, NY: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1271658
- Rehman, S., & Dzionek, K. J. (2018). The Trolley Problem Revisited. An Exploratory Study. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.9EFCDCCA
- Воображаемые сообщества : размышления об истоках и распространении национализма, Андерсон, Б., 2001
- Лекции по искусственному интеллекту, Осипов, Г. С., 2013
- Методы представления знаний и алгоритмы поиска в задачах искусственного интеллекта, учебное пособие, 146 с., Бабкин, Э. А., Козырев, О. Р., Куркина, И. В., 2005
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- The philosophy of free will : essential readings from the contemporary debates, , 2013
- Искусственный интеллект : современный подход, Рассел, С., 2006