LEGAL 250 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Legal Realism, Sport Utility Vehicle, Perjury
17 Oct 2018
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Explain the major contributions to legal studies made by the following thinkers and critiques of their theories . Legality = the meanings, sources of authority, and cultural practices that are commonly recognized as legal, regardless of who applies them or for what ends. Law = parts of legality that are employed by or attributed to formal institutions or its actors. Law retains power because everyone is in all of them. A just law is a law that. To be just is to cultivate common good. Made by a lawmaker who has not exceeded his or here authority. One whose burdens are imposed fairly on citizens. An unjust law is not a law. Similar to martin luther king jr. in this sense. Just because a woman can have a baby doesn"t mean she ought to. Believes that one should follow a law only when it is just. Have to accept punishments for not following that law.
