CRM/LAW C101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Bramble Bush, Karl Llewellyn, Lawrence M. Friedman
29 Sep 2016
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Leading scholar who happens to be one of the founding intellectuals = Key scholars for today: karl llewellyn and lawrence friedman. A collection of practices and institutions that vary from country to country, and over time. Friedman"s definition = law is, above all, collective action: action through and by a government a body of rules, or the laws themselves. People in institutions of law make the law, interpret the law, and enforce the law. Law can be either public or private, formal or informal. Formally legal action = very specific; one that is made by an official who is empowered to execute or enforce the law. There are many places around the world where law remains much less formalized. Law in those close-knit communities can be shaming instead of actual written laws. Despite that, we live in a very large, very complicated society where most everyone is in a population of strangers to us.
