LAWS 1000 : What can Law be.docx

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Law
• Course: LAWS 1000
• Professor: Steve Tasson

Document Summary

Last week the charter as a tool for reform/social change. Need to know the position of the skeptics and the optimists (couple exam questions) power splits between parliament, the executive, and the judiciary. There is also a large diffusion of responsibility (possibly political?) As well, there is a rise of expertise (and now we trust law more than politics with lawyers, experts, etc. ) which results in a reduced role of citizens. Rosa becker a lesson in law"s practical ambiguity and limits of reform through the charter. Law is essential to maintaining and reproducing capitalist societies. It is a tool of the elite (or) men (or) other dominant groups (marxist, cls, feminism) Hunt: law is a system of ideology it doesn"t physically coerce us, it ideologically convinces us that law is in our best interests we should address problems as individual problems. We would be denied any legal protection (see omar khadr)