Sociology 3260A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Academi, Panel Switch, Manifest Destiny
10 Apr 2020
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Legal pluralism: 2 or more sets of laws and legal practices operating at the same time in the same place. Minimum wage laws, immigration, weed, and death penalty. Administrative law: legal order that establishes, interprets, and implements the rules and regulations of administrative agencies. 2) admin law adjudicators exercise substantial discretion. Mashaw massive caseload of urgent appeals by the disabled applying for federal disability funds and the discretionary and disparate processes that yield decisions on those claims. 1) altered the structural context of immigration appeals by limiting the use of the panel system which generally produces more favourable results. 2) sent an implicit political message favoring fast, negative asylum decisions. Gaps in the rules of public-private jurisdiction occasionally surface and. National sovereignty and the preservation of local traditions that are threatened by laws imposed from afar. Globalization has meant that there are more and more such supranational legal institutions impinging in various ways on local practices.
