LS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Collective Responsibility, Private Prison, Structural Adjustment
17 Jan 2020
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Legal pluralism (important for assignment 2): looks beyond state law, is a situation where two or more legal systems coexist in the same social field, formal law of the state: Laws of federal gov/prov gov/municipal gov: formal rules of organizations/institutions. Own security personnel and rules on how to deal with someone who violates their regulation: allows us to see important of other forms of order; unwritten/informal (norms/customs/social pressure/customary law/informal procedures) They argue that they shape and structure our daily lives: leal study scholars. Argue that all of these are laws (even unwritten)- they govern behaviour in powerful ways and can be more forceful than formal state laws. Contrast they divide informal/formal state/non state rules. Based on different ways of knowing what rules are, easy to look up but. Examples of un/written norms, social pressures that make a law a force:
