LS300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Eviction, Neoliberalism, Color Blindness
19 Apr 2016
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The official version of law" (which comack writes about) claims canadian law to be impartial, neutral, and objective. Draw on feminist legal theories or insights about class and poverty to deconstruct (analyze and challenge) this official version of law. The law is created and interpreted by humans, thus law is social, shaped by social relations and in turn become shaped by law. However, there is this notion about the official version of law" where the claim that canadian law is to be impartial, neutral, and objective. This idea that law is the blindfolded maiden, who is in-discriminant. The official version of law", is a fallacy, an illusion of what the law aspires to be, but can never achieve. The law cannot be considered to be impartial, neutral, nor objective, because it was created, shaped and interpreted by humans. By being created by humans it becomes a social construct.
