Perspectives and Reg State Help
I've said it before, but it's worth repeating: if you're a Columbia 1L looking for a good overview of Perspectives and Reg. State terminology, you could do far worse than Lawrence Solum's Legal Theory Lexicon. Besides covering the basics, like what positive and normative mean, in the past few weeks he's covered an awful lot of territory that is useful review as exam season approaches. For instance, he's given good summaries of the following terms for Perspectives:
- Deontology (not required, but useful)
- Virtue Jurisprudence (what we covered when we read Solum's article)
- Rules, Standards, and Principles (also useful is the discussion of Balancing Tests.)
- Originalism
- and of course... the Rule of Law
And for Foundations of the Regulatory State, the following might be helpful as an overview:
- Public and Private Goods (including the tragedy of the commons and anti-commons)
- Social Welfare Functions
- Utilitarianism
- Second Best Choice (not directly relevant, but useful)
- The Prisoner's Dilemma
- The Veil of Ignorance (remember, that Rawls stuff?)
- ...and what Reg. State list would be complete without a quick guide to The Coase Theorum
Of course, now I've shared, and thus eliminated some slight advantage on the curve. What the heck, I still think law school's all about sharing. Of course, it's just one author's ideas, and not a replacement for the vast amount of reading we've done this term, but for a one-site brushup, you could do worse.