POL337Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Treaty 8, Terra Nullius, Intergenerational Equity
Document Summary
Falls under a broader category called restoraive jusice. Some stuf that was done systemaically by government to certain aspects of the populaion. Systemaic using all sort of legal means and the following to modern legal system began to recognize that some unpleasant things were done that was considered unjusiiable. Some of the challenges: problem of legality, most of the stuf at the ime was legal. The point is not that illegal was stuf was done then. But today we have come to understand that what was legal than is illegal today. Therefore, we have to come up with a set of norms that we consider elevated crimes against humanity (something like this): we want to understand why some set of norms is not subjecive to this defence. People were just following orders at the ime. It wasn"t illegal back then, but not it is. This creates an issue: high minded principled soluion to this issue vs. pragmaic maters a.
