MHS-2320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Conscientious Objector, Public Health, Joint Commission
27 Feb 2019
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Focused on identifying and explaining gaps between what the law says on the books and what people might do. Not enforcing a law in order to not insult your clients - or structural issues. Law on the books - tasks are formally created, defined, and conferred in the government realm legislative laws, agency regulations, court decisions, and government subsidies and purchasing decisions. Law in action - what people really do. At the end of the day, after laws are passed and lofty legal principled pronounced-this is the law that matters. Not just what the law says, but what people actually do w it - can be more important than what the law actually says. Identifying a gap between lotb is only the first step, interesting stuff is explaining why. Calavita"s concern: explaining selective enforcement of law by government agencies, especially in relation to labor and immigration.
