Abstract
Can education of legal philosophy be standardized? It seems extremely difficult to do so in view of liberal character of our discipline. It would be impossible to standardize philosophy of law in the same way of standardization in microeconomics, in which contents to be taught are completely standardized according to the level of students. Microeconomics for beginners is a subject without whose knowledge it is difficult for everyone to learn any other field in economics. It is in this sense the base of economics. Even civil law for beginners as what many jurists might think is the base of law in general is not standardized as elementary microeconomics, much less philosophy of law.
But I believe that it is promising to standardize legal philosophy through teaching its history, that is, noteworthy doctrines of great philosophers of law and state, even if such standardization were different in kind from one in economics. Fortunately, there is a broad consensus among legal philosophers on which philosophers should be discussed. It is essential in each lecture to begin by taking up the simplest cases or problems and then to go to the more complex ones. We should learn this way of teaching from economics. But we do not have to commit to any economic thinking, though it is necessary to make use of it in some appropriate cases.
