HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tutsi, Nationstates, American Petroleum Institute
11 Dec 2019
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Distinguish different philosophies of law schools of legal thought and explain their relevance. Identify the various aims that a functioning legal system can serve. Explain how politics and law are related. Understand some basic differences between the us legal system and other legal. Identify the sources of law and which laws have priority over other laws. systems. Law has different meanings as well as different functions. Philosophers have considered issues of justice and law for centuries, and several different approaches, or schools of legal thought, have emerged. Law is a word that means different things at different times. Black"s law dictionary says that law is a body of rules of action or conduct prescribed by controlling authority, and having binding legal force. That which must be obeyed and followed by citizens subject to sanctions or legal consequence is a law. black"s law dictionary, 6th ed. , s. v.
