PHIL 2050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Legal Realism, Deductive Reasoning, Rangers Of The North
25 Oct 2016
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Lecture 4: american legal realism: law as judicial pronouncement. When judges make changes to the law, they are corrections rather than alterations. Only legislators can legitimately make law: logical deductive reasoning: it is first degree murder to plan a deliberate action that brings upon the death of a person premise 1 is this rule. The facts: judges have to be able to provide. D did . and killed b on purpose deductively, logically states that d is guilty of first degree murder. If you believe that both premises are true than you must accept the conclusion. If the premises support the conclusions it is logical deductive reasoning: legal realist: ^this is not how judges/people make decisions in real life. Conventional views, deny that judges are impartial: realist view: there is no law until the judge decides the case. Instead we should recognize the truth, judges make and change laws every day, that is their business.
