This course aims to educate students to become legal philosophers by means of developing their ability of engaging with great legal philosophers and their ability of using legal philosophy to solve real and important legal problems. It will have three parts. The first part is to read and discuss great books in modern and contemporary legal philosophy. The second is to discuss major and influential theoretical debates in contemporary legal and moral philosophy, and to discuss the philosophy of different legal areas. The third is to apply legal philosophy to important or new cutting-edge problems facing China and the world.

CILO-1: Students will be able to build a high level of ability to engage dialogue with great legal philosophers. CILO-2: Students will be able to demonstrate and advocate novel, insightful and important approaches or perspectives to major legal problems. CILO-3: Students will be able to analyse and think critically and creatively about the law, especially novel and hard legal phenomena, problems, cases. CILO-4: Students will be able to exhibit a profound understanding of and propose well-founded solutions to novel or challenging legal problems and cases.