LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Richard Rorty, Ancient Germanic Law, Indian Act
5 Apr 2016
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The law is everywhere: laws protect the prevailing systems in society: Keep the status quo, keep things working as they are. Governs the political system by managing / regulating relations of power. When we can have elections, who can vote and when we can vote and putting limits on those who are in power. Sometimes the order isn"t what we wanted causing their to be no real peace. ** laws can also provide scope for change: in contemporary modern democratic countries, it regulates the use and deinition of spaces (private, public, military, indigenous) What is a public space vs private space. Regulates hospitals and what drugs they can use for mummies when giving birth. For sex life, there are laws inluencing when people can have sex (consent). For death, the law inluences your will, what to do when you want to pass away i. e. assisted suicide: protects ownership and deine the boundaries (private and public properties)
