Law According To A King

When it comes to the central question of legal philosophy, academics are divided. Do we have an obligation to obey the law? Crimes are committed on a daily basis, some benignly, others maliciously, and yet we are faced with the same question of whether we have a duty to follow the rules that govern our society. Wolff argues we never have such an obligation - a legal anarchist - whereas Raz approaches this from the more transactional perspective: we have an obligation to obey the law when it helps us to do something we wanted to do anyway. Shelby, on the other hand, pays particular attention to the role of society in answering the question, and argues that our obligations are differentiated on the basis of how society treats us.  Shelby writes of the ghetto: an urban neighbourhood characterised by concentrated poverty, racial segregation, violence and crime, unemployment and numerous other social issues that cast our imagination to scenes not dissimilar to those in The Wire , where ...

"I would consider myself a confident person who likes to socialise and spend time with their friends in their free time. However, I have a more serious side and in my spare time also like to debate current issues in the world and consider different viewpoints about these issues." In 1707, English law became one of two legal systems in different parts of the same  United Kingdom. Since then, the law is something that billions of people put their faith in daily: from trusting that people will be fined for not picking up their rubbish to trusting that  the big, bad criminals will be locked up in prison. However, devastating mistakes have made  many people in todays’ society, including me, question should we truly trust the legal system  that we have relied on for many years? If I say the names Derek Bentley and Elijah McClain  you may not recognise them. But that is where the problem lies, these two innocent people  deserve to be talked about more and how the ...