JURI-2426EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Common Law, Prima Facie, Administrative Law
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No class thursday second assignment via email. Take home exam most likely due the second week of april. Positivism and the inseparability of law and morals leslie green. Justice is the moral concept that first springs to mind in connection with law. The general concept of justice hart thinks relates to fairness, evaluation using justice and injustice could usually fair and unfair instead. The general idea of justice is that individuals are entitled in respect of each other to a certain relative position of equality and inequality. The fundamental precept of justice is treat like cases alike; treat different cases differently . The problem of relevance is a central issue in contemporary discussion of justice. Not a set principle to describe characteristics of what are relevant: formal or administrative justice. The justice of laws themselves depend on distributive or compensatory justice.