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Curricular Competency
Assess and compare the significance and impact of legal systems or codes (significance)
Elaboration
- Sample activities:
- Assess the significance of the Constitution Act, 1982, and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to human rights in Canada.
- Analyze the role of global dispute resolution institutions and agencies in international human rights and economic development issues.
- Assess the role of the judiciary as a constitutional check on legislative power.
- Analyze the role of the International Court of Justice (the World Court) at The Hague in cases involving human rights abuses.
- Determine the importance of key legal principles, cases, social forces, and events in the evolution of law.
- Assess the impact that a law, court decision, or legal principle has on legal structures and/or the lives of citizens.
- Assess the impact of social and/or political forces on the development of law.
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Assess and compare the significance and impact of legal systems or codes