LAWS 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Law Of Obligations, Social Fact, Legal Positivism
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You must always email ta amy hutchinson first, unless the email is to book an appointment with the professor during office hours. You must use the template sent by the professor for emails. First response paper: expect grade in approximately 14 days. According to bentham: the legislature (parliament) is the most important role of government. He does not believe in natural rights, such as the ones set out in the charter of rights and freedoms. Equality and liberty are expensive moral values: constitutional rights are a very powerful framework. The trump administration wa(cid:374)ts to li(cid:373)it the judge"s a(cid:271)ility to i(cid:374)terpret the constitution. Law should be as it is, not as it ought to be. Hart: law and morality are separate from one another legal positivism correctly explains law (according to hart) Prescriptive legal positivists are in a better position to resist immoral law. Subjects of the law (legal persons), must comply with law.