Law in Contemporary Society

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ClassTakeaways 3 - 07 Feb 2012 - Main.AbbyCoster
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Class Takeaways

Since we're trying to learn how to write with brevity, how to edit, and how to actively listen, I thought it might be helpful to collaboratively come up with a summary of the key lessons from each day in class.

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 A question also arises from how we can learn about the law when there is great distance between the language of law on one hand and the meaning of the social forces on the other. This is perhaps why law can be considered a weak form of social control.

-- LizzieGomez - 02 Feb 2012

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>		Not sure this can be classified as an all-encompassing "take-away" from last class, but a parallel I noticed between Transcendental Nonsense and Lawyerland. Robinson's statement that every criminal is "insane" but also "has a reason" shows that society labels criminals as "insane" to avoid confronting issues that it doesn't want to deal with. This idea reminds me a lot of Felix Cohen's stance on legal fictions. Judges have fashioned doctrines like "corporations," divorced from moral principles or common sense, to cope expeditiously with issues that they don't really want to form better solutions for. Though Cohen criticizes courts for doing this, maybe, as Lawyerland points out, this is a just a common way that society deals with problems. Though it is far from an honorable way to resolve issues, is it maybe that judges are not as "wrong" or "immoral" as Cohen alleges, and that they are just acting in ways similar to the rest of society?

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