LAWS110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Formal System
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Three things that make a law a law. A form of moral control for society. Societal rules that apply to everyone (supreme authority, law overrides morals, sectional interests) Regulation that forms a sense of right/wrong and a sense of security (peace and order like for contract law) Ethical value or a process of law (fundamentally different approaches) Dictatorship- right to ignore it if it is not ethical, comes down to the conceptual approach of law. No international language of law, different law in different countries, words can mean sometimes different, no international law language, the importance of the conception of law. Early formalism (john austin: power, enforcement, a sovereign. If it is law, it will be found in our books. If it is not found there, it is not law. ~law.
