SOSC 2350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Legal Culture, Environmentally Friendly
12 Oct 2017
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Lecture #5 - legal traditions & legal pluralism. 1: difference between civil and common law. How we see, understand and work with indigenous law depends on what we think law is and what our expectations of it are. It is what we do, and law"s existence depends on our serious engagement with it. Indigenous law needs to interact critically with other legal orders and it needs to do so in a way that protects the integrity of each legal order. Sentencing circles, quebec brought french people and their laws into. Specialized in comparative law, private international law and judicial law. Legal traditions are not innard, they change and adapt. Don"t think of something as they are fixed, because they change. Has 7 legal traditions: chthonic (indigenous) legal tradition, talmudic legal tradition (law followed by jewish people, jewish religion, hindu legal tradition, confucian legal tradition. 5: civil law legal tradition, common law legal tradition.
