[ENVS 201] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (26 pages long)

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS201
• Professor: Alastair Neil Craik

Document Summary

Envs201 introduction to environmental and planning law. Week 1: introduction to course and to canadian legal institutions. Connection between social order/safety and conscience (sense of right/wrong dictated somewhat by laws) Usually placed by the person in authority. Sources are important when determining if something is a law or not. Form of social ordering: purposive seeks to achieve common goals. Health: prescriptive tells subjects how they ought to behave, carries with it assumption of compliance bindingness. Where does law come from: how determine whether a source is authoritative, what is the basis of authority. ** different provinces might have different laws though. Different than any legislation: more difficult to change, superior to other laws, creates the rules about the rules, tells us who can enable these laws (provincial, federal) Not one document but many (also unwritten constitution. Established bicameral federal legislature and provincial legislatures. No rules re: system of govt: constitutional act 1982.