Effectiveness of Law Term Paper

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Inherent Limitations on its Effectiveness generally discusses the existence of laws and how their effectiveness can be measured. In general, the author of the article has done a great job in telling about the realities of the law. Examples were provided to allow the reader understand the inherent limitations of the laws' effectiveness.

I agree with most of what the article says about the description, purpose, and objective of laws, as well as how they affect the society. One truth about how the society measures the effectiveness of the law was described in the following paragraph.

So far as a norm or a law is concerned, we can tell if it is effective if, its purpose being preventive. Its existence and application prevent the conduct disapproved of. If its purpose is curative to remedy some deficiency or disorder, its effectiveness is measured by the extent to which the deficiency or disorder disappears.

The article made a good explanation of the limits of the law and its effectiveness.
It covers examples where the law recognizes both the norms and the out of norms situations. That is, the law does not only comply with the norms. Rather there are also some instances that are out of the norms that the law recognizes.

The discussion on the law as a model and the law as programme further describe the role of the law in the society. However, despite of all the information discussed in the article, in the end there is still one question that will linger to many, "how the law can succeed in liberalizing the society from disorders and wrong cultures that they were brought up to?"

Law as an Instrument of Social Change

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