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The course trains students to become legal professionals who can distinguish legal arguments from moral, philosophical, geopolitical, and social arguments while relating them in a structured way.
Legal analysis requires identifying and understanding a legal source, explaining the solution of a judicial decision, reconstructing its reasoning, and taking a structured position on the judge’s power and legitimacy.
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Read the source, explain the solution, then argue its legitimacy
1. Which sequence best describes the main stages of legal analysis?
2. A court case raises both ethical concerns and questions about statutory interpretation. What should a legal professional do when analyzing it?
3. What does Carbonnier mean by non-law?
What are the steps involved in legal analysis?
Identifying legal sources, explaining judicial decisions, reconstructing reasoning, and taking a structured position on judge’s power.
What skill does the course train students to develop regarding legal arguments?
To distinguish legal arguments from moral, philosophical, geopolitical, and social arguments.
What is non-law in Carbonnier's conception?
A sphere law deliberately chooses not to expand, allowing other rules or organizations.
What distinguishes a legal gap from non-law?
A legal gap is unforeseen and must be governed; non-law is intentionally outside law's scope.
What is objective law?
The set of legal rules and norms governing society and defining rights.
What does a subjective right represent?
An individual right recognized by objective law.
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