ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: The Doughnut, Arms Race, Nature One
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A branch of philosophy that deals with philosophical questions about law. There are still disagreements on this question because there are many different purposes. The normative question- is asked in the context of legal decision making. Addresses the issue of what is to be done. It is important to know for judges to know which rules count as legal. Aims at giving an insight into the nature of law but not at answering the question about what is to be done (disconnected from this question): hart: law as system. He approaches law as a social phenomenom: primary and secondary rules. Secondary rules- function is the organization of the legal system itself. They indicate which other rules count as law. Law itself determines which rules are legal rules and which are not by pointing out who has the power to make legal rules. The power to make rules is received by other rules (pedigree: a chain of rules.
