Summary of the past lectures:
Some of the regulatory systems societies use to exercise social order and control are besides the laws, morals and uses. The sources of legal mandates are of two kinds; material corresponding to those inspiring and motivating legal development. Most probably reflecting ideology, societal needs or pressure, and cultural evolution. Nowadays technology plays a big role in these dynamics too. Formal sources refer to the processes and formats that contain normative legal content. These are only four according to legal science: doctrine (not binding but with interpretative value), jurisprudence (case law, the doctrine of precedent or stare decisis), custom (in as much as the law assigns to it a value) and the laws in general sense. The most restrictive meaning of the laws is explained in the theory of legal hierarchy and the functioning of the different regulatory layers we studied during the past weeks. Democracy is the political environment that we collaborate with and explain in more detail. This is a model that rests upon a well known doctrine, the doctrine of the rule of law.
This is the last introductory topic this class will extend with during the next lecture. With it the foundation to better be able to interpret more specialized content will be wrapped up. Each student should have get acquainted at least with the explanations we already made in class, one or several of the readings that were suggested or the use of such expression.
Think about the applicability of these ideas to the cyberspace and all emerging virtual communities (myspace, second life, even facebook, linkedin, etc).
On Wednesday the group will also start discussing civil laws on personality: Who are "persons?" What type of persons legal systems classify and why?
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