LLB160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Friedrich Hayek, King James Version, Legal Positivism
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Interactive web that connects culture and norms: social and political dimensions, move beyond taken for granted assumptions elevator example. The life of the law is not logic, but experience. = oliver holmes. This week we will begin to consider law and its relationship to society and culture. We tend to think of law as a body of institutions and rules, but any legal system must be more deeply founded than that if it is to last for long and operate effectively. If we are to really understand our law we need to think about what it is that makes the legal system coherent, and to consider its relationship with the wider society. Is it different to those definitions provided by james and. The law is a social structure to order and provide for the governance of a society based on a set of cultural, ethical and moral standards.
