Laws

The conditions in the jails in Pakistan are deplorable; most of the prisons are more than 100 years old. Credit: Anees Jillani.

"Law[1] is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible.[2] It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people."[3]

Notations

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Radiation

"The dominant group whose values are expressed in the law is only one of many groups which are integrated in the moral and political fabric of the community."[4]

Theoretical law

"It is the feeling on the part of the dominant group of being entitled to either exclusive or prior rights in many important areas of life."[5]

Def.

  1. the "body of rules and standards issued by a government, or to be applied by courts and similar authorities",[6]
  2. a "written or understood rule that concerns behaviours and their consequences",[6]
  3. a "well-established, observed characteristic or behavior",[6] or
  4. a "statement that is true under specified conditions"[6]

is called a law.

Law is a "system of rules".[7]

Law was "the command of a sovereign, backed by the threat of a sanction".[8]

Law as an "interpretive concept" to achieve justice.[9]

Law is an "authority" to mediate people's interests.[10]

Law professors

"Unfortunately, performance is often hampered by negative feelings, which would be true for any group that had been saddled with centuries of oppression by the dominant group."[11]

"Because the token is highly visible, she bears more performance pressure than members of the dominant group.8 The dynamics created by a skewed group context are exacerbated in the case of the African American female law professor."[12]

Original research

Hypothesis:

  1. Eventually laws are passed by free people.

See also

References

  1. ↑ From Old English lagu; legal comes from Latin legalis, from lex "law", "statute" (Law, Online Etymology Dictionary; Legal, Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary)
  2. ↑ Robertson, Crimes against humanity, 90; see "analytical jurisprudence" for extensive debate on what law is; in The Concept of Law.
  3. ↑ "Law, In: Wikipedia". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. January 14, 2013. Retrieved 2013-01-14.
  4. ↑ RC Fuller (1942). "Morals and the criminal law". Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/1136815. Retrieved 2012-04-26.
  5. ↑ Herbert Blumer (Spring 1958). "Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position". Pacific Sociological Review 1 (1): 3-7. doi:10.2307/1388607. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/1388607. Retrieved 2012-12-17.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "law, In: Wiktionary". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. June 19, 2014. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
  7. ↑ Hart & Campbell. The Contribution of Legal Studies. pp. 184.
  8. ↑ John Austin. "Bix". Palo Alto, California USA: Stanford University. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
  9. ↑ Dworkin. Law's Empire. pp. 410.
  10. ↑ Raz. The Authority of Law. pp. 3-36.
  11. ↑ Roy L. Brooks (1985). "Life after tenure: Can minority law professors avoid the Clyde Ferguson syndrome". USF Law Review 20 (28): 419. http://heinonlinebackup.com/hol-cgi-bin/get_pdf.cgi?handle=hein.journals/usflr20&section=28. Retrieved 2012-04-26.
  12. ↑ Linda S. Greene (1990). "Tokens, Role Models, and Pedagogical Politics: Lamentations of an African American Female Law Professor". Berkeley Women's Law Journal 6: 81. http://heinonlinebackup.com/hol-cgi-bin/get_pdf.cgi?handle=hein.journals/berkwolj6&section=12. Retrieved 2012-12-17.

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