CRI215H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Interdisciplinarity, Penology, White Supremacy
28 Nov 2017
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Cri215 l // week 6 law"s boundaries note. Legalism vs law: legalism: way of thinking/analyzing/living that refers to legal categories, not as concrete, more of an ideology/style of thought, law: system of rules. Many definitions of community: can be hiding sub communities or even the state itself, trying to persuade you that something is a good idea (timeless and uncontroversial when it is actually controversial) Sarat and hussain"s history, theory, and interdisciplinarity. Sarat: throws off any disciplinary identity, uses a lot of different techniques all at once. Hussain: historian of colonial india, worked on period of emergency in 20th century, what happens when state declares there"s a state of emergency and they stop abiding by usual laws, writing about jurisprudence of emergency. It"s an executive prerogative (goes back to old legal courts where king/queen could do whatever they wanted: can override what courts decide, passed down to presidents and governors in us this is a power that they hold.
