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Elaborate summary of the book About Law: An Introduction. Can be used for the Business Law course of the first year (fourth module, called module 4 HOLI) of the International Business Administration program at the University of Twente. Can also be used at other universities with the same book.

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  • June 23, 2021
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  • university of twente
  • 1st year iba
  • 4rd module iba
  • holi
  • business law
  • law
  • about law
  • honore
  • universiteit twente
  • ut
  • international business administration
  • iba
  • about law an introduction

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About law summary
About Law: An Introduction by Honoré, T.

, Aims of law
1. Making society more stable
2. Enabling people to flourish
3. Provide facilities
4. Settle disputes
5. Settle what the system of government is to be

Who makes law?
1. Parliament
2. The government, administrative organs and agencies
3. Courts

Parliament – bills and statutes
The government, administrative organs and agencies – regulation and decisions
Courts – case law

Court = one or more judges with jurisdiction to hear and decide a dispute
Jurisdiction = the right of a court to head and decide a case

Right = a person’s interest that must be respected by other people and by the state

Regulation = a legal rule made by the executive, a rule creating a minor crime

State = a political unit with a territory that the international; community treats as
independent
Legislature = branches of the state, which makes new laws and cancels or repeals old laws
Repeal = revoke a law
Executive government = put laws into effect
Judges = decide disputes about the law

Aims of international law
1. Stability
2. Encouragement of trade and other contracts between states

Short term: threat of punishment
Long-term: morality and self-interest

Why not every morality is a law
1. Give people freedom
2. Laws are expensive

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