FARE 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: International Commercial Law, Riparian Water Rights, Precautionary Principle

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics
• Course: FARE 1300
• Professor: Julio Mendoza

Document Summary

But there are rules for chess, and tennis and we don"t. But street gangs have rules backed by force, and but. Not all government rules are backed by force (e. g. Candidate definitions: law is rules call them laws, law is rules backed by force don"t think of those as laws, law is rules backed by force and created by government bike helmets in ontario) Law is social control: the maximization of welfare or improving efficiency, law as the promotion of virtue (environmental perspective, religious perspective) this is an ethical perspective. Law as conflict resolution: law as the promotion of individual liberty (ethical perspective) by setting boundaries for individual action. Law is a social system for the resolution of conflicts. Not all law is made by government among human beings. There rules are backed by sanctions (not necessarily force) and appeal to a basis in legitimacy.