POLB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Precedent, Legislative Intent, Lists Of Landmark Court Decisions

• School: UTSC
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLB30H3
• Professor: Margaret Kohn

Document Summary

Come to lectures (very heavily lecture-reliant course; no textbook) Take notes for exam & to maintain focus. Do readings after lectures (in between class & tutorials) Normative theory makes an argument (hypothesis, statement) about how things should be rather than how they are. Used to be a carpenter"s measure ( norm ), then became used in law. E. g. you should attend lectures every week to do well in the class. You should go to class to take part in the community of the university you can"t prove this using observation or statistics = normative statement. Common law the part of law that"s is derived from custom and judicial precedent rather than statutes, aka written law previously passed by legislation. E. g. common law married no certificate but through custom they are married. Also referred to as judge-made law: developed by judges through decisions of courts & similar.