Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
Osher 2013
During spring semester of 3013, I taught a shortened version of my
seminar as part of an adult education program run by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
at SCU. The course consisted of four lectures, each two
and a half hours long; the first was on February 11th, the last on
March 11. It was a lot of fun teaching a class where I did not have
to grade anyone and everyone was there to learn things, not to get
credits for a degree. Very much like the classes I teach at Pennsic
each year.
Unfortunately, I was even more disorganized than usual about
recording my lectures, so only have recordings of the final class
and part of the class before it. Anyone interested in a more details
account of the legal systems and the issues they raise will find it
in the draft
of the book on the subject that I am currently writing.
March 4:
Review of previous class
Amish
When God is the legislature
Gypsies
March 11:
Review of previous class
Embedded and polylegal systems
Periclean Athens
18th c. English criminal law
Traditional Somali law
Who Guards the Guardians
Conclusions