CRIM 1116 Lecture Notes - Legal Realism, Conservative Liberalism, Dialectic
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Latin for an unjust laws no law at all the principal tenet of the natural law perspective. Theory that has its roots in judeo-christian conceptions of social life this theory holds that law and morality must be synonymous. Legal realists often referred to as skepticists they see the personality and political orientation of individual judges, community sentiments, specific economic realities, and political imperatives as all contributing to the growth of statutory law and judicial decisions. Legal realists may be conservative liberal or radical in their political views,economic or moral orientation but all advocate the view that legal doctrine alone cannot explain legal decision making. A marxist theory of law and the marxist response. Marxism-the political and economic theories of karl marx especially that as labor is basic to wealth historical development following scientific laws determined by dialectical materialism dialectical materialism-the doctrine or theory of history espoused by.
