Online Master Degree Programs in Jurisprudence  

Interested in getting a jurisprudence master degree online? An online master degree in jurisprudence is available from the learning institutions featured on this page through their online degree program offerings. The schools listed are accredited by the much respected Distance Education and Training Council (DETC) and while we don't believe any school can be right for every person, we do feel these are quality schools very much worth investigating by any student considering getting a master degree in jurisprudence online.

College of the Humanities and Sciences - Harrison Middleton University,
1105 East Broadway, Tempe, AZ 85282. Founded: 1998. First Accredited: 2003. Course description: Master of Arts in Jurisprudence - Master of Arts in Jurisprudence is an interdisciplinary study of the idea of Law. The program enables the student to examine the philosophy and principles of law in the context of human thought, and to trace its evolving operations and functions in societies across the history of Western civilization. Topics students explore include: the definition of law, the major kinds of law, the divine law, the natural law, the human or positive law: the sanction of coercive force, law and the individual, law and the state, historical observations on the development of law and on the diversity of legal systems or institutions, and the legal profession and the study of law. Some of the authors that speak to the idea of law include: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Hobbes, Montaigne, Bacon, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Gibbon, Barth, Kant, Hegel, Tocqueville, and Weber.