UNC School of Law The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
He said that, for example, “early customary law” and “municipal law” were contexts where the word “law” had two different and irreconcilable meanings. Thurman Arnold said that it is obvious that it is impossible to define the word “law” and that it is also equally obvious that the struggle to define that word should not ever be abandoned. It is possible to take the view that there is no need to define the word “law” (e.g. “let’s forget about generalities and get down to cases”).
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- Ministers or other officials head a country’s public offices, such as a foreign ministry or defence ministry.
- Modern competition law derives from the U.S. anti-cartel and anti-monopoly statutes of the turn of the 20th century.
