LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Indian Act, Legal Culture
22 Mar 2016
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Regulates the political system by modulating relations of power. It establishes authority (who is superordinate/subordinate and why do they have the authority) It regulates the use and definition of spaces (private, public, military, indigenous laws) It regulates the use and definitions of relationships (interpersonal, sexual, marital, professional, business, political) It regulates your birth, education, sex life, marriage, salary, freedom, traveling and death. Protects ownership and define the boundaries (private and public properties) Customs as sources of law (elders, figures of authority moral/sacred: homogenous society, proximity of interests (gathering food, ensuring safety), kinship ties . Modern industrial societies, kinship and customs are replaced by: more mobile social positions associated with salary work , common interests, challenged by pluralism (the good life, cultures, religious and beliefs) As a result: the prospect for conflicts increase . The need for more robust and complex system of formal and universal rules (criminality, trade)
