[LWSOC-UA 1] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (26 pages long!)

• School: New York University
• Department: Law and Society
• Course: LWSOC-UA 1
• Professor: Harrington Christine

Document Summary

Govt. services (collective/popular) ( unions) collective action > lln, clm: shifting of interest group politics from lobbying to litigation, problems: litigation allows narrowly de ned groups in. 1: allows advocacy groups to achieve objectives w/o preferences of. Law and society lecture notes 9/20: 1. Adjudication - what is this: 3rd party intervention/presence in a disputing process, the logic of the trend as a root concept of a court (prototype) Preventing the breakdown of the triad through consent : 5 variables (characteristics) distinguishing adjudication institutions: level of coerciveness/authority >judicial vs. arbitration vs. mediation. 1: scope of severity of sanctions/punishments, source of norms applied. 4: degree of publicness level of formality in the procedure. : involving minors: arbitration doesn"t deal w/ criminal, process of review and moving through courts is important. Prosecution: types of adjudication institutions, problems in other institutions >formal public courts. Public courts plea bargaining, drug courts (pre-trial diversion programs)