Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Foundations of law
- Characteristics
- rules
- guide behaviour
- define things
- collective enforcement
- positive law
- "laid down"
- Law and morality
- black and white v. grey
- setting guidelines
- M: important for society
- L: state enforcement
- moral--> legal counterparts
- positive morality
- broadly accepted
- v. law
- law offers legal certainty
- critical morality
- should be accepted rationally
- vs law
- certainty of clear reault
- content of law
- will be enforced
- consistent
- Roman Law
- sources of law
- tribal customary law
- guidelines of behavior grew spontaneously out of society
- law of the people
- unwritten
- codification
- customary law written down
- vs legislation
- L: created the law, did not exist before
- Common Law
- William the Conquerer
- royal justices
- Precedent
- cision of a jugde is evidence
- court creates legal rules
- binding
- stare decisis
- stand by your decision
- case law
- British Commonwealth
- influence eachother
- Equity
- petition to change ruling
- judge-made
- focus on fairness
- Ius Commune
- Canon Law
- Church
- marriages, contracts etc
- Roman Law
- students spread it over Europe
- "common
law"
- Rationalist law
- Roman law
- reason written down
- natural law
- vs customary + positive law
- Westphalia Duo
- National law
- result of Peace of Westphalia
- nation states
- International Public Law
- Codification
- legal unity
- France
- certainity--> written down
- law making power to central agencies
- influence of people
- Interpretations
- Literal Rule
- literal meaning of words
- Mischief Rule
- interpretation to
suit aim
- Golden Rule
- revert to intention
- Legal Families
- Common Law Family
- England, Ireland, Wales
- Civil Law familiy
- French familiy
- BE, FR, ES, P
- German family
- DE, A, CH
- Transnational Law
- Human Rights Law
- UN
- Ius Cogens
- no derogation permitted
- European Union Law
- separate autonomous legal system
- Lex Mercatoria
- commercial matter
- arbitration
- does not belong to Westphalia Duo