PPAS 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Legal Realism, Legal Positivism, The Sociological Imagination
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It is not autonouse or self contained. It is a human and social institution. Law impacts the social and social impacts of the law. Lines around the map are socially constructed and are a result of serious decision made by law makers. (impacts how we move and how we make decisions. ) 1960"s: law and society emerges to challenge and narrow doctrinal understandings of law which includes social justice, feminism, legal history, and anti- racism. Grasp between history and biography and the relations between the two within society. An attempt to understand and evaluate arguments. To develop an awareness of social justice issues in terms of their historical context, current content and future possibilities. Issue behind every controversy in legal theory is how law is to be understood in relation to moral values. The law requires the separation of law and morality. > separation thesis. Separation thesis is held to be the de ning characteristic of legal positivism.