HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - Legal Positivism, Statutory Interpretation, Narratology

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1825
• Professor: Neil Braganza

Document Summary

There is a modification for next week. Disregard the extraneous, zero in and focus on the essential. There are three questions that are all around one theme: this will allow us to adjust a bit: woohoo, answer the goddamn questions as asked. Fuller, dwarkin, and kafka: read the two short stories. The alpha and the omega is the text. Dwarkin was about theory, cases is in practice. Cases: how judges decide cases; that is novel cases; cases of new instances. Where the facts of the law don"t quite mesh: this is the illustration of the theory that we have learned. We get to see the theory applied to practice. Next week we"re watching a film that shows the application of the theory to a. Hollywood depiction of a real trial of nuremburg. By doing these tests, we are acquiring skills. Each case deals with a gap in the law of a moral issue.