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Western Law

Setting requirements for the professional duty and competence of BC attorneys. Graduating students acquired prestigious School of Law awards on the 2022 Commencement Ceremony on May 15. Gabby Kolencik L’22 and Erin McCluan L’22 had been the recipients on the 2022 Distinguished Student Awards.

Around 1900 Max Weber defined his “scientific” strategy to law, identifying the “authorized rational form” as a sort of domination, not attributable to private authority however to the authority of abstract norms. Formal legal rationality was his time period for the key characteristic of the sort of coherent and calculable law that was a precondition for contemporary political developments and the modern bureaucratic state. Weber noticed this law as having developed in parallel with the growth of capitalism. Another leading sociologist, Émile Durkheim, wrote in his basic work The Division of Labour in Society that as society becomes more complicated, the physique of civil …