BA 30310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Town Privileges, Procedural Law
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Lecture 1 notes: purposes of law, 1. Constrains business: keep businesses from hurting people, 2. Facilitates business: protecting intellectual property rights, 3. Protect interest of all parties: getting the balance right, what is the law, law is complex because dealing with complex issues, body of american law = huge, primary sources of law, 1. Constitution federal constitution and then each state has a constitution: constitution = supreme law of the land, 2. Criminal law: punishments are usually jail or fines to the government, 2. Civil law: compensation for the victim is usually the end result, 3. Substantive law: about specific things that need to be followed, regulations can have both substantive and procedural effects. Procedural law: focus is to make sure that all parties to the dispute on substantive law are abiding, procedural law is really about how to handle substantive law. Learn to think like a lawyer: 2.
