CRIM 135 Study Guide - System Time, Collective Intelligence, Garden Tool
22 Apr 2014
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Crim 135 new - week 2 lecture notes. Role of law and sources of canadian law. Law is the skeleton that structures our economic/social/political lives. Barometer of the nation"s view on human relations. Cotterrell argues that natural laws has become a compromise among diverse interests within a population. The operation of law doesn"t rely on time-less principles but more on. U. s constitution + canadian charter of rights and freedoms = natural law ideals (freedom of religion, conscience, expression etc) Legal realism - argues that legal doctrine cannot be understood without examining social/economic/political context in which the doctrine takes shape. Legal realists = skeptics : believe that to understand legal process, one must be aware of the social/economic/political contexts where law arises/changes/persists. Idea based on legal rules based on judicial decisions that benefits the greater society - no supernatural authority applies.
