LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Georg Simmel, Complex Number, Universal Law
Document Summary
Perspectives of law provide us with a way not only to understand the law as it is but as it ought to be. Reveals understandings about the way societies are constituted. Help reveal existing hierarchies in societies and also the way societies are held together. Not all societies employ "law" as we understand it (eg. property right) Traditional societies rely on custom as source of rules and resolve disputes through conciliation or mediation by elders (next week) Traditional societies are more homogenous than modern industrial ones. Shared set of common interest and relations are more intimate (durkheim) Point of similarity between law and sociology (social sciences) V&n: law is 1) authoritative 2) reactive 3) interested in problem-solving 4) adopts an artificial black and white view of the world 5) law is seen as instrumental (it"s a tool) 6) no need to question founding assumptions. Cordozo predictability; allow us to predict behaviour if there is a law in place.
