PROC 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Legal Culture, Napoleonic Code, Quasi-Contract

• School: McGill University
• Department: Procedure
• Course: PROC 200
• Professor: Kun Fan

Document Summary

1) substantive objective: explore the civil law tradition as a self- constrained discourse, through the law of obligations considered as a unified set of concepts, rules and principles. 2) methodological objective: develop the ability of students to act as problem-solvers and critical thinkers, using their legal knowledge and skills. No, depending on the parties, the lawyers, the backgrounds, etc. Methodology for the course: many scholars find the concept useful as a means to understand, abstract theoretical category of social life (singular, culture v economy, politics, history, concrete world of beliefs. Historical, comparative (with the french civil code and the bgb), cultural (different cultures have diff understandings about negotiating and signing contracts) and sociological (put it in a social context) Culture: (cid:498)culture is one of the two or three most complicated wods in the. )t considers that (cid:494)actors engaged in repeated interaction over time produce culture(cid:499: culture is (cid:494)contradictory(cid:495), (cid:494)loosely integrated(cid:495), (cid:494)contested(cid:495), (cid:494)subject to constant change(cid:495), and (cid:494)weakly bounded(cid:495) (cid:523)sewell (cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:882)(cid:887)(cid:524)