What books should I read to understand the law,/lit/?
We have a chart for this.
>>25493771Judge Dredd
>>25493771The Talmud
Franz Kafka - The Trial
>What books should I read to understand the law,/lit/?If you really want to understand the law, read your local and national news, the minutes from the meetings for your local city council, the budgets for the various levels of government you are in, and, for any subsection of law you are interested in, any relevant studies comparing outcomes for whatever is being governed by those laws across jurisdictions, and any financial disclosures you can get access to for your government.You'll learn who makes the decisions for what the law is, why they make those decisions, whether those decisions are helping or hurting you, what else they could have done with the resources that went into enacting those decisions, and whether they knew, could have easily, or should have found out how those decisions would play out in advance.Theory tends not to survive contact with the real world and there isn't really much of a good reason to rely on it when we have a wealth of information about how the world works nowadays.
>>25493771Read legal history and political philosophy
>>25493997Sure, but for those of us who are not autistic enough to enjoy rummaging through municipal government filings a well written book would be nice.
>>25493771Judge Dredd comic books
>>25493771What law? Political law? Criminal law?
>>25493771While I never went to law school, I did take some legal history courses as I was considering it.The general sense that I got was that the actual law all traces it's roots back to specific events in English history, but that this was broken with sometime after the revolution and no longer is seen as having any merit in argument.Very much like your cover, the law is a frozen record, an amalgamation of the thought/personalities/perceptions of different judges over time which are absorbed into the greater legal precedent organism.When it was still linked to an English origin, this preserved some general body play, but as time went on and so many different judges from so many different schools of thought/cultures/backgrounds were added to the great organism, bilateral symmetry broke, and then that general form, until finally today you have what is a great contradictory and amorphous blob of meaninglessness from which no certain argument can be made, and which is entirely subjective.This ultimately convinced me not to go to law school.
>>25493960this and simulacra
>>25494468If you aren't autistic enough to enjoy rummaging through municipal government filings there isn't really much of a point in getting into law.
>>25493899Based
>>25493771>Treatise on Law by St. Thomas Aquinas>Law's Empire by Ronald Dworkin>Concise History of Common Law by Theodore Plucknett>Any modern law textbooks you can get your hands on. >The list posted here >>25493891Further, as >>25493997 said, if your goal is to understand the law as a practical matter, read cases and court opinions. That will trump 95% of what I mentioned, with the exception of the law textbooks.
>>25496388I should have mentioned case and court opinions, but I was thinking of law as legislation and not law as precedent.Also, it's worth pointing out that unfortunately cases and court opinions often end up being pretextual and/or ephemeral. Depending on the court and case, you'd be better served reading amicus briefs from partisan organizations or even party platforms, since those end up being what actually decide cases for what (ostensible) reasons.>https://www.courtnewsohio.gov/cases/2024/SCO/0725/230293.asp>Restaurant Not Responsible for Injury From Bone in Boneless Wing>Writing for the Court majority, Justice Joseph T. Deters explained that “boneless wings” are a cooking style and not a guarantee that fragments of bones would not be present in the dish.
>>25493771Western Jurists - A Critical History by James Gordelly
