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Select and access an appellate decision from any common law jurisdiction and critically deconstruct at least two of the judicial opinions from the perspective of at least two theories encountered on the course.
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March 2003 Legal and Social Theory Coursework Assignment Student No.10030505 Select and access an appellate decision from any common law jurisdiction and critically deconstruct at least two of the judicial opinions from the perspective of at least two theories encountered on the course. The endless quest of the legal scientist to provide a single and flawless definition of law has provided varying and ever changing perspectives and theories with which to scrutinise the application of "law". Jurisprudence realises the hopeless nature of such an act but in bringing together various theories it can help us to understand how and why certain legal reasoning exists. As A. Thurman observed1, "Obviously, 'law' can never be defined. With equal obviousness, however, it should be said that the adherents of the legal institution must never give up the struggle to define law, because it is an essential part of the ideal that it is rational and capable...
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