LS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10, 11, 12: Victimless Crime, Indian Act, Controlled Drug In The United Kingdom
7 Apr 2017
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Module 10: family law and social policy: marriage and divorce laws. Textbook chapter: chapter 7: law and social change pg. Believed there would legal reform to respond quickly to new social needs and to restructure society -> beginning of industrialization and urbanization in europe. Believed that countries at a similar stage of economical development needed similar remedies for their common problems. Principles introduced active legislative instruments bringing about social reforms partly in response to and partly in stimulation of felt social needs. Condemned the sweeping legal reforms brought about by the french revolution -> threatening to invade western europe. Only fully developed popular customs could form the basis of legal change. Customs grow out of the habits and beliefs of the specific people; rather than expressing those of an abstract humanity, legal changes are codifications of customs -> can only be national never universal.
