LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Unemployment Benefits, Cybercrime, Voting Rights Act Of 1965
22 Mar 2016
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The law, a central symbol of power and social order, depends for its influence on the very culture it attempts to control. To capture the relationship between law & social transformation. 3 levels of interaction: the individual (obedience); in-group phenomenon (struggles); the impact of new realities (morals, technologies) There has always been the controversial topic of whether: law should lead a society, its change or if society should alter the law. British social reformer jeremy bentham and the german legal scholar friedrich. Karl von savigny have contrasting standings for these propositions. At the beginning of urbanization and industrialization in europe, he expected legal reforms to respond quickly to new social needs and to restructure society. Gave advice to the leaders of the french revolution. Believed that countries at similar stages of economic development needed similar fixes to their problems. Turned british parliament into active legislative instruments.
