CRIM 417 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Roscoe Pound, John Stuart Mill, Robert Latimer
27 Oct 2017
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** look at the readings to better understand these legal paradigms. The sociology of law is a multi-disciplinary approach to law. Argument that we have been a foundational shift in our awareness of rights (embracing of this idea of rights). This idea of rights is the protection of minorities regardless of what the majority thinks. Related to concepts of equality, justice and rights. Contextualized canada within the global legal arena. This culture has allowed people to have a platform to express their grievances and to be heard by the government in power. In hopes of achieving the best justice that we are able to. * identify commonalities and differences between these theories. In isolation each theory may have its limits. * classical legal theory - legal perspectives concerned with the definition of law: v. latimer case: Most publicized case of euthanasia in canada. Robert latimer killed his severely disabled 12 year-old daughter tracy in 1993.
