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Of course, cases in court are only the most visible manifestation of the law in action. The law affects our daily lives in a myriad of ways including how you buy your house, drive your car or what information you read on the back of food packets. Most of us interact with law on a daily basis, being guided by it, rather than butting up against it
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Of course, cases in court are only the most visible manifestation of the law in action. The law affects our daily lives in a myriad of ways including how you buy your house, drive your car or what information you read on the back of food packets. Most of us interact with law on a daily basis, being guided by it, rather than butting up against it.
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There is considerable overlap between the popular conception of law and the rule of law. I discuss the rule of law below.
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Burch writes that: 'I consider law a form of ideology and regard legal discourse as a form of social practice'. See: Kurt Burch, 'Property' and the Making of the International System (London: Lynne Rienner, (1998), p. 70.
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There is some disagreement over when the idea of law peculiar to the Western world emerged. Berman argues that it emerged as a consequence of the Gregorian Revolution and the Investiture Struggle (1075-1122). The Church established its political and legal unity and its independence from emperors, kings and feudal lords and it is from this period that the idea of integrated legal systems emerged. See , London: Harvard University Press
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There is some disagreement over when the idea of law peculiar to the Western world emerged. Berman argues that it emerged as a consequence of the Gregorian Revolution and the Investiture Struggle (1075-1122). The Church established its political and legal unity and its independence from emperors, kings and feudal lords and it is from this period that the idea of integrated legal systems emerged. See Harold J. Berman, Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (London: Harvard University Press, 1983).
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There is debate over when capitalism can be said to have emerged. While capitalism truly grew and flourished during the nineteenth century the conceptual ground for its existence were laid down much earlier, in the seventeenth, and maybe even the sixteenth, century.
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Common law draws abstract rules from specific cases whereas civil law starts with abstract rules which judges ten apply to cases. These two systems account for the vast majority of the world's legal system and both of them originated in the West. There are also some mixed systems like Scotland. International law derives from four sources: International conventions, that is, treaties; international custom; general principles of law recognised by civilised nations and, as a subsidiary means, the opinion and writings of expert jurists
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Common law draws abstract rules from specific cases whereas civil law starts with abstract rules which judges ten apply to cases. These two systems account for the vast majority of the world's legal system and both of them originated in the West. There are also some mixed systems like Scotland. International law derives from four sources: International conventions, that is, treaties; international custom; general principles of law recognised by civilised nations and, as a subsidiary means, the opinion and writings of expert jurists.
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This idea of story-telling comes from Anthony G. Amsterdam and Jerome Bruner: 'Clients tell stories to lawyers who must figure out what to make of what they hear. As clients and lawyers talk, the client's story gets recast into plights and prospects, plots and pilgrimages into possible worlds [. . .] If circumstances warrant, the lawyers retell their clients' stories in the form of pleas and arguments to judges and testimony to juries [. . .] Next, judges and jurors retell the stories to themselves or to each other in the form of instructions, deliberations, a verdict, a set of findings, or an opinion'. (London: Harvard University Press
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This idea of story-telling comes from Anthony G. Amsterdam and Jerome Bruner: 'Clients tell stories to lawyers who must figure out what to make of what they hear. As clients and lawyers talk, the client's story gets recast into plights and prospects, plots and pilgrimages into possible worlds [. . .] If circumstances warrant, the lawyers retell their clients' stories in the form of pleas and arguments to judges and testimony to juries [. . .] Next, judges and jurors retell the stories to themselves or to each other in the form of instructions, deliberations, a verdict, a set of findings, or an opinion'. Minding the Law (London: Harvard University Press, (2000, p. 111.
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This is particularly pronounced in the Anglo-American common law system. The continental civil law system is more oriented to finding the truth though the process of classification remains the same.
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The case referred to as Brown was a collection of five cases which were heard together because each dealt with the constitutionality of racially segregated schools, with the exception of Bolling v. Sharpe (347 US 497), which dealt with the federal government's duty to respect racial equality. The other cases were: Gebhardt v. Belton (33 Del. Ch. 144 (1952)), Briggs v. Elliott (347 US 483 (1954)), and Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County (103 F. Supp. 337 (1952)). The Supreme Court's ruling on remedy, referred to as Brown II, was handed down on 31 May 1955
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The studies cited were widely derided, in particular Kenneth C. Clark's doll study. Here, black and white children were given a black doll and a white doll and asked to chose which one was the 'good doll', which had a 'nice colour', and so forth. Both sets of children favoured the white doll, leading Clark to conclude that black children felt ashamed of their colour and inferior to whites. However, Chief Justice Warren's opinion failed to mention that black children living in the segregated South had higher approval rates for the black doll, than black children living in the unsegregated North. The basic premise of the study, that segregation makes black children feel inferior, could not therefore be borne out by the study.
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