Law 2101 Lecture Notes - New Economics Foundation, Veto, Royal Assent
26 Sep 2013
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Hutterite example: photo should be taken for driver"s license, but their religion doesn"t allow being photographed. What should i do? tend to think, what if it were me? . Rules are written down to make things clear for everyone. Decision to not comply with law cannot be taken lightly; can be a complicated process for some. Criminal law: restrain wrong-doing, punish the wrong-doer. Austin"s command theory of law: all law can be reduced to a command backed by a sanction: over-inclusive: captures a lot of things that we don"t think of as law. Eg. stealing ipad mini: if you don"t give it to me *implicit threat*, yet is not a law: under-inclusive: law does a lot of things that aren"t captured by this definition. Eg. making wills: if you want to make an order of affairs to have your property orderly transferred, this is how you do it.
