Faculty & Staff
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Robert
C.L. Moffat Professor of Law Affiliate Professor of Philosophy Box 117625 / Gainesville, FL 32611-7625 e-mail: moffat@law.ufl.edu 352.273.0660 / Fax: 352.392.3005 |
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Courses
- LAW 5100 - Criminal
Law (3 credits)
A detailed study of the Florida law of homicide, attempts, complicity, conspiracy, defenses, and theft offenses with comparison to Federal law and selected sections of the Model Penal Code.
Prerequisites: None. - LAW 5210 - Jurisprudence
(3 credits)
A study of concepts of law and morality in their historical contexts beginning with Blackstone, Bentham and Austin; comparing American contributions of Holmes, Llewellyn and Frank; culminating in an intense study of judicial decision-making. A deeper study of Hart, Fuller and Dworkin is undertaken in second part of the course with exploration of a variety of issues arising in the relation of law and morality.
Prerequisites: None. - LAW 6936 - Law and Public
Policy Seminar
Focuses on major issues of law and public policy, including assumptions on which policy-making is based (such as problems of compliance, creating obligation, enforcing morality and protecting freedom). Fundamental policy questions discussed include affirmative action, social and economic policy (including defining equality and providing incentives), thinking about disadvantage, and the emerging challenge of social neuroses. Also addresses selected policy issues of life and death, including right to die, cloning, population policy, welfare, immigration. Objective quiz and take-home essay or a research paper are required. Readings will be from mimeographed materials.
Prerequisites: None. - LAW 6936 - Law and Morality
Seminar
Focuses on issues associated with the work of Lon Fuller (including moral aspects of lawmaking, law and power, and influence of social contexts on law, compliance with law, inherent characteristics of law, law and social change). Objective quiz and take-home essay or a research paper are required. We read Fuller's paperback, The Morality of Law, and my own mimeographed manuscript, Morality and Law: The Social Dimension.
Prerequisites: None.