Intro to Law - Chapter 1

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Across
  1. 2. theory of justice based on lex talionis, or the law of retaliation
  2. 3. theory of justice concerned with appropriate distributions of entitlements, such as wealth and power, in a society
  3. 4. theory of justice according to which (1) a person has a moral responsibility for harm caused to another, and (2) the latter’s loss must be rectified or corrected
  4. 6. law relating to the process by which core rights and obligations are determined and enforced
  5. 9. theory of law largely concerned with exposing law as an instrument of the rich and powerful
  6. 12. law that deals with core rights and obligations
  7. 14. theories that focus on something—for ex- ample, justice or the law—as a means to an end
  8. 15. legal theories, based on the writing of the communist philosopher Karl Marx, that are concerned with the distribution of wealth in a society; related to distributive justice theories
  9. 20. a constitutionally separate and relatively self- contained system of law regulating the Canadian Forces
  10. 21. a kind of legal study that looks at law from a broadly social, interdisciplinary perspective
  11. 22. standards of right and wrong, often associated with personal character
  12. 23. law that concerns the relationships between persons
  13. 24. a theory, developed in the US and Scandinavian countries, that encourages a more thoroughly empirical study of the process by which laws are made and applied
Down
  1. 1. theories of law that generally concern the legal, social, and economic rights and opportunities of women
  2. 5. standards of right and wrong often applied to specific groups - for example, professions
  3. 7. also known as “philosophy of law” or “science of law”; concerns theories that are used to describe, explain, or criticize the law
  4. 8. theory of law that focuses on race-based inequities; an offshoot of critical legal studies
  5. 10. law dealing with the legal relationship between a state and individual members of the state
  6. 11. human-made law, as opposed to a higher law (natural law) that transcends persons or institutions
  7. 13. a key legal concept whose central tenets are that everyone is equal before the law and that power under the law should not be used arbitrarily
  8. 16. a kind of sociological study that looks at law from a broadly social, interdisciplinary perspective
  9. 17. theory that the only valid source of law is the principles, rules, and regulations expressly enacted by the institutions or persons within a society that are generally recognized as having the power to enact them
  10. 18. law of a particular state or society
  11. 19. theory that there is a source of law that is higher than man-made law, with which man-made law must try to comply