What Is Law?

Modern American Legal Theory, Fall 2026

JURI 4199 · University of Georgia

Audio lectures for JURI 4199, Modern American Legal Theory, at the University of Georgia School of Law.

Listen to each episode after doing the corresponding reading but before coming to class.


Reading 1: Speluncean Explorers

· for class Meeting 1 (8/25)

Lon Fuller, The Case of the Speluncean Explorers, 62 Harv. L. Rev. 616 (1949).

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Reading 2: Holmes

· for class Meeting 1 (8/25)

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Path of the Law, 10 Harvard L. Rev. 457 (1897).

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Reading 3: Hohfeld

· for class Meeting 2 (9/1)

Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning, 23 Yale L.J. 16 (1913).

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Reading 4: Pound

· for class Meeting 2 (9/1)

Roscoe Pound, Law in Books and Law in Action, 44 American L. Rev. 12 (1910).

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Reading 5: Hale

· for class Meeting 3 (9/8)

Robert Hale, Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-Coercive State, 38 Political Science Quarterly 470 (1923).

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Reading 6: Cohen

· for class Meeting 3 (9/8)

Felix Cohen, Transcendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach, 35 Colum. L. Rev. 809 (1935).

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