LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Legal Realism, Bourgeoisie, E. Adamson Hoebel
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Natural law: function to provide and alternative that law is merely what we make as. Legal realism: the theories are ways of looking at the law. Strengths/weaknesses of the theories: depends on what you are, you view the s/w differently (might think they"re not a s. if you"re something else) Engel and legal consciousness: article come back to it. Law is tool of bourgeoisie to maintain dominance. Up until 1983, legally impossible for husband to rape wife. Weak: no firm agreement to how law should be done. Exam: the thing that we get from here, what we don"t get from other theories. Notion of intersectionality you don"t need to be discriminated in one way. It works not just because you"re female, but it can mesh together. Legal pluralism: multiple forms of law working in same place at same time. In society itself. -ehrlich (globalization: people can move) Law too important to be left to lawyers.
