GEOLOGY 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 60: Basic Law For The Federal Republic Of Germany, Statutory Law, Common Good
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It does not deal with a particular subfield of law, it is rather a branch of philosophy that deals with philosophical questions about law. How the punishing criminals can be justified. What the essence of the rule is law. Wheter human rights would still exist if they were not included in a statute or treaty. The question about the nature of law is often ask in the context of legal decision making ex : A judge should apply the law, but not morality therefore it is important to know which rules count as legal rules. Philisophers are sometimes interested in questios without immediate practical interests, they often want to know the nature of law. The nature of law is completely disconnected from the question how to at. It is possible to say this is prohibited by law, but that does not affect what it will do.
