Философия права и Публичная Политика

Магистратура 2025/2026

Статус: Курс по выбору (Политика. Экономика. Философия / Politics. Economics. Philosophy)

Кто читает: Департамент политики и управления

Где читается: Факультет социальных наук

Когда читается: 1-й курс, 1 модуль

Охват аудитории: для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ

Преподаватели: Тюляев Георгий Сергеевич

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 3

Контактные часы: 28

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Abstract

The course delivers an overview of the key concepts of law taking into account their relation to public policy issues. It is planned to provide the students with the general knowledge of legal philosophy and its main principles with an emphasis on the issues of public good, social contract, and political regimes. The course will analyze how philosophical underpinnings influence policy-making processes, particularly in areas like social justice, ethics, and governance. Through a combination of theoretical discussions and case studies, participants will get acquainted with how philosophical principles shape legal frameworks and inform policy decisions and develop an understanding of how legal philosophy relates to public policy debates. The course discusses the foundations of critical theory of state and law, basic theories of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought, and modern theories of legal validity through the lens of legal positivism.

Learning Objectives

To guide students through the general political and legal concepts applied on public policy and legal philosophy including law, authority and political obligation
To provide students with the global outlook in contemporary theories of legal thinking and their origins: from ancient thought to up-to-date theories of legal validity
To equip students with skills of legal methods applied for interpretation of statutory law and court practice in the domain of public policy
To build up firm knowledge of key issues at the crossroads of legal philosophy and public policy

Expected Learning Outcomes

To guide students through the general political and legal concepts applied on public policy and legal philosophy including law, authority and political obligation
To provide students with the global outlook in contemporary theories of legal thinking and their origins: from ancient thought to up-to-date theories of legal validity
To provide students with skills of legal methods applied for interpretation of statutory law and court practice in the domain of public policy
To build up firm knowledge of key issues at the crossroads of legal philosophy and public policy
To provide students with the global outlook in functions of public law and public policy, justice and morality, primary and secondary rules in the framework of a legal system.
To obtain comparative and analytical insights into the principled interrelation between legal philosophy and public policy by comparing classical and modern theories, including those of the Cambridge school of thought and its perspectives towards the concepts of the State and the Republic.
To articulate the historical evolution of the sovereign state concept and analyze its significance in shaping contemporary notions of state authority, freedom and law.
To be able to discuss and rethink major issues in legal philosophy and political theology.
To provide an overview of legal clauses and exceptions from the validity of law, classify the types of political regimes, debate prudence and the problem of modern state limitations.
To trace development of legal and political theories of interpretation over time, identifying how shifts in philosophical and critical perspectives have shaped contemporary understandings of legal concepts.
To assess challenges related to communication within legal and policy-making processes, drawing on modern and postmodern theoretical perspectives related to discourses of power, knowledge and faith.
To assess and debate an interplay between legality and the truth.
To obtain comparative and analytical insights into the principled interrelation between legal philosophy and public policy in the contexts of inclusive and exclusive legal positivism.

Course Contents

The Sovereign State and Its Genealogy
State and Law: An Approach to Legal Validity
The State and Common Will. The Republic. The Social Theory of Law
Rethinking The Common Will Critically. Anarchy, State and Utopia
Political Theology. Divine Quest for Authority in Clash Between Natural Law and Positivism
Theory of the Nation State: In Search of Ratio
Theory of Legal Interpretation: In Search of Meaning
Law and Political Theory: A Shift to Brand-New Gnosticism
Discourse and the Problem of Truth in Public Policy and Law
Revisiting Legal Positivism in the XXI century

Assessment Elements

Active Participation
The student is taking an active part in discussions held during the class sessions. The students also do read the papers and are ready to reflect upon the texts related to the topic of the day.
Group presentation
Final paper
Open debate

Interim Assessment

2025/2026 1st module
0.1 * Active Participation + 0.4 * Final paper + 0.3 * Group presentation + 0.2 * Open debate

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

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A realistic theory of law, Tamanaha, B. Z., 2017
A world history of ancient political thought, Black, A., 2016
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Archaeology of knowledge, Foucault, M., 2005
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Bentham, J., Burns, J. H., & Hart, H. L. A. (1996). An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=12348
Bourke, R., & Skinner, Q. (2016). Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1159348
Campbell, T. D. (2016). The Legal Theory of Ethical Positivism. [Place of publication not identified]: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1432550
Comparative political thought : theorizing practices, , 2013
De officiis, Cicero, M. T., 2005
De republica. De legibus, Cicero, M. T., 2000
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Grieco, J. M. (1988). Anarchy and the limits of cooperation: a realist critique of the newest liberal institutionalism. International Organization, 42(3), 485–507. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818300027715
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Hunt, L. H. (2015). Anarchy, State, and Utopia : An Advanced Guide. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=993556
Jean - Jacques Rousseau. Vol.1: Paradoxes and interpretations, , 2006
Jean - Jacques Rousseau. Vol.2: Human nature and history, , 2006
Jean - Jacques Rousseau. Vol.3: Political principles and institutions, , 2006
Jean - Jacques Rousseau. Vol.4: Politics, arts and autobiography, , 2006
JOHNSON, K. D. (2016). The Cambridge Companion to Christian Political Theology. Anglican Theological Review, 98(4), 772. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=f5h&AN=119315005
Kantorowicz, E. H. (2016). The King’s Two Bodies : A Study in Medieval Political Theology. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1090909
Legality and Locality : The Role of Law in Central-Local Government Relations, Loughlin, M., 1996
Machiavelli : a very short introduction, Skinner, Q., 2000
MacIntyre, A. C. (2007). After Virtue : A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition (Vol. 3rd ed). Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1226600
Mascaretti, G., & Foucault, M. (2018). The Analytic Philosophy of Politics. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.D3B8335A
Milbank, J. (2017). Radical orthodoxy and protestantism today: John Milbank in conversation. Acta Theologica, 37(suppl 25), 43–72. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edssci&AN=edssci.S1015.87582017000200004
Newman, S. (2018). Political Theology : A Critical Introduction. Cambridge, UK: Polity. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1985347
Nicomachean ethics, Aristotle, 1999
Nozick, R. (2013). Anarchy, State, and Utopia. New York: Basic Books. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=677086
On Duties, Cicero, M. T., 2004
On Stoic Good and Evil, Cicero, M. T., 1991
On the republic; and, On the laws, Cicero, M. T., 2014
On the rule of law : history, politics, theory, Tamanaha, B. Z., 2005
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Philosophical investigations, Wittgenstein, L., 2000
Political thought and history : essays on theory and method, Pocock, J. G. A., 2009
Political thought and history : essays on theory and method, Pocock, J. G. A., 2010
Quispel, G. (1992). Hermes Trismegistus and the origins of Gnosticism (Vol. 46). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsram&AN=edsram.000361045
Radical democracy and political theology, Robbins, J. W., 2011
Raz, J. (2011). From Normativity to Responsibility. Oxford: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=458490
Realistic Socio-Legal Theory : Pragmatism and a Social Theory of Law, Tamanaha, B. Z., 1999
Rodriguez, B. V., & Zambrano, P. (2018). One Myth of the Classical Natural Law Theory: Reflecting on the “Thin” View of Legal Positivism. Ratio Juris, 31(1), 9–32. https://doi.org/10.1111/raju.12196
Rousseau and revolution, , 2011
Schmitt, C. (2005). Political Theology : Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty (Vol. University of Chicago Press ed). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=335369
Scott, P., & Cavanaugh, W. T. (2004). The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology. Malden, MA: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=108693
Skinner, Q. (1990). The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences (Vol. Canto ed). Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=53595
Skinner, Q. (2002). Visions of Politics: Volume 3, Hobbes and Civil Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=112662
Skinner, Q. (2004). Visions of Politics: Volume 2, Renaissance Virtues. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=112400
Skinner, Q. (2012). Liberty Before Liberalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=909523
Skinner, Q. (2012). On the Liberty of the Ancients and the Moderns: A Reply to My Critics. Journal of the History of Ideas, 73(1), 127–146. https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2012.0010
Skinner, Q. (2014). Freedom of inclination: On the republican theory of liberty. Juncture, 21(2), 131–135. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2050-5876.2014.00792.x
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Tamanaha, B. Z. (2015). The Knowledge and Policy Limits of New Institutional Economics on Development. Journal of Economic Issues (Taylor & Francis Ltd), 49(1), 89–109. https://doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2015.1013881
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The Cambridge history of eighteenth-century political thought, , 2006
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The foundations of modern political thought. Vol.1: The Renaissance, Skinner, Q., 2005
The foundations of modern political thought. Vol.2: The age of Reformation, Skinner, Q., 1978
The foundations of modern political thought. Vol.2: The age of Reformation, Skinner, Q., 2005
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Utilitarianism as a public philosophy, Goodin, R. E., 1995
Wittgenstein on rules and private language : an elementary exposition, Kripke, S. A., 2004

Recommended Additional Bibliography

A history of philosophy. Vol.8: Utilitarianism to early analytic philosophy, Copleston, F., 2003
A history of Philosophy. Vol.8: Utilitarianism to early analytic philosophy, Copleston, F., 2006
A short history of western political thought, Spellman, W. M., 2011
A social history of western political thought, Wood, E. M., 2022
Administering interpretation : Derrida, Agamben, and the political theology of law, , 2019
Economic justice and liberty : the social philosophy in John Stuart Mill's utilitarianism, Su, H.-chun, 2013
Flores, I. B., & Himma, K. E. (2013). Law, Liberty, and the Rule of Law. Dordrecht: Springer. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=537241
Geréby, G. (2008). Political Theology versus Theological Politics: Erik Peterson and Carl Schmitt. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.D7ECCFE9
Himma, K. E., & Bix, B. (2016). Law and Morality. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1552890
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Laws. Books 7-12, Plato, ., 2004
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Naming and necessity, Kripke, S. A., 1981
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Rousseau : a very short introduction, Wokler, R., 2001
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TYULYAEV GEORGY SERGEEVICH

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