Whether the United States will remain a supporter of free trade and continue to participate as a leader in the WTO will ultimately depend on whether citizens elect leaders who support the process. For example, if Ross Perot had been elected in 1992, NAFTA would have been politically (and legally) dead during his mandate. “The Bachelor of Legal Studies and Litigation is perfect for students who studied law in high school or want to study the role of law in society,” says Malins. Suppose a court has to decide whether an employer can fire an employee without cause. Suppose there were no laws that applied to the facts: there was no contract between the employer and the employee, but the employee had worked for the employer for many years, and now a younger person was replacing him. The court should decide, without prior guidelines, whether the employee has raised a “cause of action” against the employer. If the court decides that the case is not legally enforceable, it will dismiss the claim. Future courts would then treat similar cases in the same way. In this lawsuit, the court could find that employers can fire employees for any reason or no reason. This rule could be applied in the future if similar cases occurred. • Licite focuses on the ethical content of law and focuses on the spirit of the law, while law attaches more importance to the legal form. “In the first year of the Bachelor of Laws, you will have an introductory topic called Becoming a Lawyer in a Globalized World, which focuses on the global issues facing today`s lawyers and the changing world of work for lawyers.
You will work with industry mentors, true legal professionals, who will help you draft and present legal research projects. You will also study a mid-degree subject in Law, Business and Human Rights with a focus on international justice. Related to the CLS school, but different, is the ecofeminist school of legal thought. This school emphasizes – and would change – men`s long-standing dominance over women and the rest of the natural world. Ecofeminists would say that the same social mentality that leads to the exploitation of women is the root of male exploitation and the deterioration of the natural environment. They would say that male ownership of land has led to a “culture of domination” in which man is not so much a steward of the existing environment or of those who are “subordinate” to him, but is responsible for making everything he controls economically “productive.” Wives, children, land and animals are considered economic resources, and legal systems (until the nineteenth century) largely granted rights only to men owning land. Ecofeminists would say that even with the increase in women`s civil and political rights (such as the right to vote) and with the recognition of children`s and animals` rights and some nations` concern for the environment, the legacy of the past for most nations still affirms the primacy of “man” and his domination of nature and women. In international legal systems, sources of law include formal contractual agreements between nation-states. (agreements between states or countries) and customary international law (usually consisting of judicial decisions of national judicial systems when parties from two or more nations are involved in a dispute). To gain the skills you need to work as a lawyer in modern legal practice, RMIT offers the Bachelor of Laws, Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Business (Business Informatics) and Bachelor of Law/Bachelor of Business (Economics and Finance). There are also legal systems that differ considerably from the common law and civil law systems.
Other communist and socialist legal systems (e.g. Cuba and North Korea) are based on assumptions very different from those of English common law or European civil law. Islamic and other religion-based legal systems bring different values and assumptions to social and business relations. No matter how wrong a person`s actions may seem to you, the only injustices you can correct in court are those that may be related to one or more pleas in a complaint is a legal basis on which a claim is based. The legal basis may be a constitutional law, a law, a regulation or a prior judicial decision that sets a precedent to be followed. Positive law is replete with case law, treaties, laws, regulations and constitutional provisions that can be transformed into causes of action. If you have an agreement with Harold Hill that he will buy seventy-six paper clips from you and not pay for them after delivery, you`ll probably feel treated unfairly, but a court will only respond positively to your complaint if you can prove that his conduct gives you a cause of action based on some part of your state`s contract law. This case would give you a cause of action under the laws of most states; To the extent that Harold Hill had no legal excuse recognized by the contract law of the state concerned – such as his lack of legal competence, the fact that he was under eighteen years of age, that he was drunk at the time of the agreement, or his claim that the instruments were trumpets rather than trombones, or that they were delivered too late to be useful to him – You might expect compensation for his breach of your agreement with him.