LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Private Law, Social Control
31 Aug 2016
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Video of men fighting over the flower we cannot live without law because without law men can be turned into monsters. Fence between the two pieces of land symbolizes an understanding of what the limits and what is what and who"s is who"s (just like law) Laws protect the prevailing legal system: laws are made to protect the legal system in place. Therefore, there is a system in order for it work. Law regulates the political system by modulating relations of power: it establishes authority (who is superordinate/subordinate, rule of law, relations of power are not against you all the time but allow you to have dimensions about yourself. Everything about you is about relationships of powers. It establishes authority and why people have authority of you. We need to question why people have authority and why there is authority. Conceptualizations of law : sources of law. Homogeneous societies a society that shares a common language, ethnicity, and culture.
