SOSC 1375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Narratology, Moral Panic, Indian Act
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Examines original legal statutes & their amendments & gov"t policies, & historically contemporary media reports (newspaper reports), legislative debates, & speeches made by actors of the times, literature, popular media, archives. Includes a re-evaluation of previous explanations for parliament"s legislative initiative in enacting immigration law. History is plural there can be no definitive interpretation historical vision is fragmented some of the stories, as told, are mutually contradictory. It is a powerful technique used by legal players such as lawyer as it can shine their client in a positive light or bring down their opponent by indicating prejudices. Uncovering the narrative qualities of legal texts and judgments, including their sequencing and causal presentation of events as well as their investments in prescriptive assumptions about correct behavior, is accordingly vital to understanding how law operates. (brooks) Socio-legal approaches/studies challenge the official version of law.