BUS 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: United States Code, Pennsylvania Code, Legal Realism
30 Jan 2017
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Natural law: the belief that government and the legal system should reflect universal moral and ethical principles that are inherent in human nature. One of the oldest and most significant schools. Legal positivism: a school of legal thought centered on the assumption that there is no law higher than the laws created by the national government. Historical school: a school of legal thought that emphasizes the evolutionary process of the law and that looks to the past to discover what the principles of contemporary law should be. More likely to follow decisions made in the past. Legal realists: jurist and scholars who rebelled against the historical approach to law. Legal realism: a school of legal thought that challenged many existing jurisprudential assumptions. Law can never be applied with total uniformity. Sociological school: a school of legal thought that views the law as a tool for promoting justice in a society.
