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REQUIRED TEXT: Internet Access Tools, Academic
Computing Services, CSULB (Fall 1996 edition)
Additional required reading is listed below. Materials
for the Introduction and Unit I are available at the University
Library Reserve Desk. The remainder is available on-line through
the World Wide Web.
Introduction to the Course: Disciplines and Methodologies
Thursday, September 5:
"The Humanities and the Constitution," by Paul A. Freund (Reserve Desk)
WWW: http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/452_r1.html
"The Shift in Twentieth-Century Legal Theory," by Mark Kelman (Reserve Desk)
WWW: http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/452_r2.html
Tuesday, September 10:
Orientation to Research on the World Wide Web, Marilyn Bergin,
Senior Assistant Librarian, Library Room 326W, University Main
Library -- 9:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Unit I: Freedom of Expression vs. Freedom from Harassment
Thursday, September 12:
"Philosophy, Law, and Humanities," Theodore M. Benditt (Reserve Desk)
"On Liberty," J.S. Mill (excerpts on freedom of expression) (Reserve Desk)
WWW: http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/452_r3.html
Tuesday, September 17:
Skyywalker Records v. Navarro, 739 F.Supp. 578 (S.D.Fla.
1990) (Reserve Desk)
Thursday, September 19:
"Pornography: On Morality and Politics," by Catherine MacKinnon (Reserve Desk)
from Toward a Feminist Theory of the State, pp. 195-214
in Adams, Philosophical Problems in the Law (1st ed., 290-307; 2nd ed., 217-227)
Tuesday, September 24:
American Booksellers Association v. Hudnut, 771 F.2d 323
(7th Cir., 1985) (Reserve Desk)
Thursday, September 26:
"Obscenity as Pornography," by Joel Feinberg (Reserve Desk)
from Offense to Others, pp. 143-164
in Adams, Philosophical Problems in the Law (1st ed., 275-290; 2nd ed., 208-217)
Tuesday, October 1:
"Pornography as Representation: Aesthetic Considerations, by Theodore A. Gracyk (Reserve Desk)
from Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Winter 1987): 103-121
Thursday, October 3:
Review of course methodologies, issues, on-line technologies
Unit II. Assisted Suicide
Reading for this unit will be supplemented with on-line resources
and finding assignments
Tuesday, October 8
Short Paper I due at class time
"The Sin of Suicide," St. Thomas Aquinas
WWW: http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/452_r4.html
"Essay on Suicide," David Hume
WWW: http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/452_r5.html
Thursday, October 10
Matter of Quinlan WWW: http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/452_r6.html
Cruzan v. Harmon WWW: http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/452_r7.html
Tuesday, October 15
Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington (No. 94-35534)
(9th Cir.) (March 6, 1996) (Parts I-IV): WWW: http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Ct/Circuit/9th/opinions/9435534.htm
Tuesday, October 22
Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington (Parts V-VII)
Tuesday, October 29
Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington (Dissent)
Tuesday, November 5
Essay II due at classtime on philosophical analysis of Compassion
in Dying
Tuesday, November 12
Quill v. Vacco (No. 95-7028) (2nd Cir.) (April 2, 1996)
11/4/96
The text of this decision on the Pace University site has been replaced with a brief report that the court has declined to rehear the appeal, as the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear this case. The full text of the original Second Circuit decision can be found at this site:
http://www.awinc.com/partners/bc/commpass/lifenet/quill-96.htm
For Class on November 12, please read the majority opinion.
Tuesday, November 19
Please read the concurring opinion of Judge Calabresi in Quill
v. Vacco. (It is included at end of the text of the decision
assigned for 11/12/96.)
Unit III. Class Projects
Tuesday, December 3
Essay III due at classtime on philosophical analysis of Quill v. Vacco
Class Presentations (Panels I & II)
Thursday, December 5
Class Presentations (Panels III & IV)
Tuesday, December 10
Class Presentations (Panels V & VI)
Thursday, December 12
Class Presentations (Panels VII & VIII)
Final Written Project due: Thursday, December 19: 10:00
a.m.
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