LAWS 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Critical Legal Studies, H. L. A. Hart, Jeremy Bentham
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Jeremy bentham: positivist thinker, law is a sovereign command, and imposed by threats and sanctions. Hla hart: built off bentham, primary and secondary rules. Focuses on how the law is applied, and how it impacts people. Focuses on repercussions and impacts of the law. Focuses on day to day interactions, and how law and rules are involved, interconnections. Symbiotic relationship between law and society (affect one another) Basing it on observations that are knowledgeable, testable, and observable. Attempts to find evidence to support or critique the law. Believe that there is a disconnect between law and society. Draws in theories from other disciplines (such as economics, psych etc)
