CRI215H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Consumer Protection, Social Forces, Determinative
17 Dec 2017
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Today: there is no one ideology, it depends on the law school itself. Tendency to think teleologically: liberal legalism views that societies will slowly go from a small village, to a developed democratic city. Law changes according to society, providing society a social control. Rejects the assumption of steady progress over time. Emphasis on complexity and contradiction over reason and coherence. The idea that law is for the fundamental good is just na ve. We are putting too much faith in the people leading the society. There are peripheral subjects, like legal philosophy or legal history, legal. There are peripheral subjects, like legal philosophy or legal history, legal process, clinical legal education. These are presented as not truly relevant to the. hard objective, serious, rigorous analytic core of law. They are a kind of playground or a finishing school for learning the social art. Gordon says this is highly disputed among liberal legal scholars.
