LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Indian Register, Aboriginal Title, Verdict
8 Dec 2015
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Law making: the influence of public opinion and social forces. The principle of influence, exam (very important) 162 the case system president (read for exam) Part 2 of intro to aboriginal law. 4 sociological approaches to law making (vago & nelson chapter. The understand the impact of public opinion/activism/scholarly reports on legislation activities through the prism of aboriginal rights . To understand the difference between the: 1) power of the legislature to make laws, 2) constitutional check on law making (s. 35), 3) the need of justification by courts, especially the principle of precedents . What rational guides lawmaking by courts: the logic and values guiding the principle of precedents . ): exam: protecting the members of society from social harm, critique: law makers/powerful interest who define the activities, may be harmful to those concerned. Example: the indian act, we have seen .
