Sociology 3260A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Substantive Law, Procedural Law, Private Law
1 Jan 2020
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Week 2 - introducing law and law making. Today"s agenda: what is law, types of law, sources of law and law-making processes, constitutional law; statue law; common law; administrative law; indigenous law. Law"s essence or "ideal image" (group activity: guest speaker: paul schmidt (writing centre) What is law: no agreement among scholars. Sources of law in canada: significantly influenced by british, french, u. s. and (more recently) indigenous legal systems, also judeo-christian influence. Lecture notes: set out basic principles of democratic government in canada (including rights and. Freedoms) and defines powers of government: executive (queen or crown; federal cabinet, legislature (parliament - hoc and senate, gg, what is the distribution of legislative powers for the federal and provincial. Note: distribution of powers is outlined in canada"s constitution act (1982), sections 91 and 92". Municipal government is not a constitutional order of government. Municipalities are established by the provincial legislatures which delegate some of their powers.
