LAWS11-318 Study Guide - Final Guide: Legal Certainty, Statutory Law
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Puttfarken is condemned as an accomplice to murder for reporting on gottig. Two executioner"s assistants condemned to death for their part in executions. A deserter is judged blameless in shooting a sergeant while escaping. Radbruch claims that the nazi statutes conflicted with super-statutory law . Statutes which conflict with super-statutory law are null and void, leading to statutory lawlessness . Purposiveness is, in this case, a fancy word for the goal of producing public benefit. One of the goals of law, then, is to benefit the citizens. This goal is the least important, and is largely achieved through the other two goals: legal certainty. Legal certainty is the goal of having citizens know what the law is. This is important to allow people to follow the law. It is also crucial for ensuring that we can rely on law, and use it to aid in cooperation: justice.
