CRM/LAW C101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Yelp, Sole Proprietorship, Justifiable Homicide
8 Oct 2016
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Family law is an area known as domestic relations in civil law dealing with marital property and handles that, but also the rights and obligations spouses have toward one another in every state. Deals with child custody, marriage, divorce, foster care system. Modernly includes things like same-sex marriage, adoption law, and assisted reproduction/surrogacy/surrogate motherhood. Field of law that governs the corporation and a number of other business forms (llp, sole proprietorship, etc. ) Key scholars: felstiner, abel, & sarat; miller & sarat/clrp (civil litigation. Some laws are; driving on the right side of the road; if you drive on the left side, you will get into an accident or someone is bound to notice. Ex) the right not to be discriminated in your job (race, sex) You have to mobilize your rights in order to make them effective; before you do something, you have to realize that it"s a problem and have to define it as a legal problem.
