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1985

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Dalhousie Law Journal

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Law As A Social Science, R. Lynn Campbell Jun 1985

Law As A Social Science, R. Lynn Campbell

Dalhousie Law Journal

Law is offered as an undergraduate social science discipline at Carleton University. Students may take programmes leading to both Major and Honours B.A. degrees in law or may also undertake the study of law in a combined Major or Honours programme in conjunction with another discipline. Successful completion of any programme does not qualify the graduate for admission to any bar admission programme nor is any credit given towards a law degree for courses taken at Carleton.' The purpose of the programme is to promote an awareness of the place of rules respecting human conduct in political, social and economic …


Language, Communication, Computers And The Law, R. A. Samek Jun 1985

Language, Communication, Computers And The Law, R. A. Samek

Dalhousie Law Journal

There is an old story about a drunken man who is looking for an object under a street light. A policeman asks him what he is looking for. "It is my keys", he says. "Did you lose them here?" "No, over there.'" "Why then are you looking for them over here?" "Because I can see here", is the man's reply. The real significance of this story is very different from what it appears. It is not the man who is foolish but the policeman. We can only look for something from where we can see it. The alternative is to …