Across
- 2. theory of justice based on lex talionis, or the law of retaliation
- 3. theory of justice concerned with appropriate distributions of entitlements, such as wealth and power, in a society
- 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
- 6. law relating to the process by which core rights and obligations are determined and enforced
- 9. theory of law largely concerned with exposing law as an instrument of the rich and powerful
- 12. law that deals with core rights and obligations
- 14. theories that focus on something—for ex- ample, justice or the law—as a means to an end
- 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
- 20. a constitutionally separate and relatively self- contained system of law regulating the Canadian Forces
- 21. a kind of legal study that looks at law from a broadly social, interdisciplinary perspective
- 22. standards of right and wrong, often associated with personal character
- 23. law that concerns the relationships between persons
- 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. theories of law that generally concern the legal, social, and economic rights and opportunities of women
- 5. standards of right and wrong often applied to specific groups - for example, professions
- 7. also known as “philosophy of law” or “science of law”; concerns theories that are used to describe, explain, or criticize the law
- 8. theory of law that focuses on race-based inequities; an offshoot of critical legal studies
- 10. law dealing with the legal relationship between a state and individual members of the state
- 11. human-made law, as opposed to a higher law (natural law) that transcends persons or institutions
- 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
- 16. a kind of sociological study that looks at law from a broadly social, interdisciplinary perspective
- 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
- 18. law of a particular state or society
- 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