Political Science 3201F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ethnocentrism, International Humanitarian Law
31 Aug 2016
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In the us in any given year, 80% of crimes do not get solved. Not a lawless nation, maybe even impede too much. The law doesn"t have to be effective but needs to be impactful enough to feel like its effective (punish enough criminals to feel like it"s effective) Thinking about the character of law (especially in canada) Law aspires to certainty, order, persuasion, reason and justice - integral to understanding and defining. Central debate about international law is source of its authority. Start w/ canada (il = one state entering into agreement w/ another state) Caught b/w queens"s treaties w/ aborigional (not international b/c one. Legal tradition is a general aspect of culture, historically conditions attitudes about nature of law, role of law and society + proper organization of legal system. Cultural legal conditions that stopped canada from posting aborigional articles b/c canadians couldn"t be trusted not to be racist.
