PSYC 248 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: United States Court Of Appeals For The Federal Circuit, Punitive Damages, Complications Of Pregnancy
Document Summary
The scientific study of the effect the law has on people and the effect people have on the law. Legal formalism: dominant in the 19th and early 20th centuries. What qualifies a person to teach law is not experience in dealing with men, or experience in trial or argument, but the experience of law. Legal realism: was a full movement around 1930 . This school of thought that law is the behavior of all legal actors whose decisions are based and influenced by personal experiences and biases. To accomplish his goal of social wefare the legal system must examine social reality, you have to have good knowledge for how society and human behavior function. Successes: expert testimony, jury and trial consultants, amicus briefs. Experimentation; descriptive (describes the state of the world) nomothetic: probability. Law: precedent. (grounded in) authoritative; authority from higher courts above up to constitution being the highest authority.
