LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Legal Realism, Bourgeoisie, Universal Law

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Law
• Course: LAWS 1000
• Professor: Steve Tasson

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*4 law jobs is usually first question of exam* Conflicts as property: conflict is valuable in a society. Reaso(cid:374)s co(cid:374)flicts get (cid:862)stole(cid:374)(cid:863: all about distancing, courts and mundane processes of law are tedious and uninteresting (distancing, courts are not accessible (distanced, professionalization of conflict reduction and resolution, expertise as distancing. In modern society you can"t take the conflict into your own hands illegal so one must find a lawyer to take the conflict on for them. Is this workable in our society: might (cid:862)steali(cid:374)g (cid:272)o(cid:374)fli(cid:272)ts(cid:863) (cid:374)ot ulti(cid:373)atel(cid:455) reduce the predictability and stability of law. It needs to be complicated because the complexity allows law to produce good results. Legal positivism: goal of law is to promote predictability, calculability and stability of social relations. Law on the books vs law in practice. Marxist approaches: not as interested in law, e(cid:373)(cid:271)le(cid:373)ati(cid:272) of a (cid:862)co(cid:374)fli(cid:272)t perspe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e(cid:863, bourgeoisie vs proletariat, econo(cid:373)i(cid:272) la(cid:449)s of histor(cid:455)/ (cid:862)diale(cid:272)ti(cid:272)al (cid:373)aterialis(cid:373)(cid:863)