CRIM 1116 Lecture Notes - Formal System, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, H. L. A. Hart
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Justice-a term derived from the roman term for law justicia which means to give each man his due in modern terms it has come to represent an idea of legal fairness. It is often used to reflect the personal or societal understanding of the upholding of rights and the punisments of wrongs when undertaken by the law. Injustice-a word that refers to a situation in which the law or the legal system treats someone or something unfairly. There are positivists, natural lawyers, legal realists marxists, critical legalists feminists, anarchists, and libertarians among others. Positivism-the theory that law can be understood as a valid set of rules whose content is to be determined through a logical system of precedents rather than through the application of moral considerations. Task of legalists is to interpret the intentions of lawmakers not to make moral choices. Social contract-a term usually associated with jean jacques rousseau who in.
