What About Law?: Studying Law at University

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Weber wrote that the typical characteristics of modern bureaucracy are that officials define its mission, the scope of work is bound by rules, and management is composed of career experts who manage top down, communicating through writing and binding public servants' discretion with rules. shows how the study of law can be fun, intellectually stimulating, challenging and of direct relevance to students.

These are the nitty-gritty, detailed, technical rules fleshing out in more detail a provision laid down in a particular Act of Parliament. Most statutes, even those introducing completely new rules, assume and build on the existing common law in some way—they rarely arrive out of a clear blue sky. Janet O'Sullivan is Senior Lecturer in Law, Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge, winner of Cambridge University Pilkington teaching prize for excellence in university teaching; associate editor, Tottel's Journal of Professional Negligence; solicitor.These subjects are essential building blocks for a proper understanding of law, regardless of whether you go on to pursue a legal career. Joseph Raz, on the other hand, defended the positivist outlook and criticised Hart's "soft social thesis" approach in The Authority of Law. The executive is led by the head of government, whose office holds power under the confidence of the legislature. The writing style is very accessible and areas of which I previously had little or no knowledge such as EU Law, have been brought to life through the excellent writing technique.

The custom and practice of the legal profession is an important part of people's access to justice, whilst civil society is a term used to refer to the social institutions, communities and partnerships that form law's political basis.The canon law of the Catholic Church influenced the common law during the medieval period through its preservation of Roman law doctrine such as the presumption of innocence. By the principle of representative government people vote for politicians to carry out their wishes. Jurimetrics is the formal application of quantitative methods, especially probability and statistics, to legal questions.