LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Peer Pressure, The Principle, Friedrich Carl Von Savigny
23 Mar 2016
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There has always been controversial topic of whether: Briish social reformer jeremy bentham and the german legal scholar friedrich karl von savigny have contrasing standings for these proposiions. At beginning of urbanizaion and industrializaion in eu, he expected legal reforms to respond quickly to new social needs and to restructure society. Gave advice to the leaders of the fr revoluion. Believed countries at similar stages of economic development needed similar ixes to their probs. Creates law, shaped society, intervenes (creates society in order to vision we have) Condemned sweeping legal reforms brought about by fr revoluion that were threatening to invade w eu. Only fully developed pop customs could form the basis of legal change. Customs grow out of the habits and beliefs of speciic ppl, therefore legal changes are codiicaions of customs and can only be naional, not universal. Aristotle if you have a const that"s morally too high, can easily lead to crumbling of gov.
