1. Warm-Up (45L) 1. What are laws?
2. What are the characteristics of good laws?
3. Imagine you are starting your own society. List the 5 laws you would base your society upon.

2. History of Law
Subtitle

3. What is Law?
John Adams- “In the United States, we will have a government of laws, not of men.”
Law: set of rules that allow peaceful living in a society

4. What is the Purpose of Laws?
Keep peace
Prevent violent acts
Set punishments
Set rules for resolving disagreements

5. What Makes a Good Law? Reasonable Fair Understandable
Apply equally to all

6. Historical Development of Law
Hammurabi’s Code (1760 BC):
First written set of laws (why is this impt?)
Ten Commandments (1446 BC):
Moral & religious principles
Many principles used today

7. Roman Law Jurisprudence=study of law
Roman judges studied/interpreted laws of Rome
Code of Justinian (533 AD): streamlines existing Roman laws, writes them down in single document

8. English Law
Common law: law based on court decisions (precedent) rather than written legal code
Magna Carta (1215):
1st Eng. doc to limit power of king
Trial by jury
Innocent until guilty
Lots of amendment #5!

9. What do Hammurabi’s Code and the Code of Justinian say
What do Hammurabi’s Code and the Code of Justinian say? How are they similar (and/or different) to laws today?

10. Types of Law

11. Six Major Types of Law…. Civil Criminal Public (Constitutional)
Administrative
Statutory
International

12. Civil Law
Disputes btwn ppl where no criminal laws were broken
Incl. family law (divorce, child custody, adoption, child abuse, etc.)
Examples!

13. Lawsuit When civil case goes to court
Person sues to collect damages ($$$) for some harm done
Plaintiff: individual who files the lawsuit
Usually filed when contracts broken

14. Torts
Civil wrongs
Person may suffer injury & claim another person is responsible
Examples!

15. Criminal Law
Why?
Seek to prevent ppl from deliberately (on purpose) or recklessly (carelessly) harming each other or each others’ property
Adversarial system of justice: 2-sided structure; lawyers from opp. sides present best case in courtroom w/ impartial judge

16. In a Criminal Trial… Prosecution: always gov’t (crimes hurt society)
Defendant: person/grp being accused
Title of trials: gov’t comes first in 1st naming
State of North Carolina v. Casey Holmes
Texas v. Johnson

17. Types of Crime Felony: serious crime; punish: 1+ yr prison (/death)
Misdemeanor: less serious; punish: fine/ <1 yr jail
Murder
Rape
Robbery
Arson
Kidnapping
Vandalism
Petty larceny
Shoplifting
Trespassing
Simple assault
Larceny  Burglary  Robbery

18. Other Types of Law Public (Constitutional) Law Rights in Constitution
Limit gov’t powers
Statutory Law
Statute= written law
Speed limit, drivers license, social security, returning merchandise, etc.
Administrative Law
Rules, regulations that gov’t agencies must issue to carry out jobs (FDA, EPA, etc)
International law
Treaties, customs, agreements btwn nations
The Hague