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A Unified Theory of a Law is an introduction to the study of law. Yet, it is more than just an introduction. Either by accident or on purpose, a model of a law has evolved within us. We are its prisoners. It stands between us and the legal world and filters our view of it. Whether our view of the legal world is accurate or not depends on the fidelity between our model of a law and the laws that run around outside our head in the legal world. A Unified Theory of a Law attempts to make our model of a law more accurate. It is powered by the insight that legal fission is possible. Have you not heard of legal fission? The physics of legal fission postulate that a law can be split into two components 1) its words and 2) its structure. They exist independently of each other. Together they constitute a law. While many have taken notice of the words of a law, knowledge of the structure of a law is still rare. The words, like ornaments, adorn the structure of a law. The words change; but the structure stays the same. Like the DNA of a cell, the structure of a law repeats itself over and over again in every instance of a law. To generate a law's meaning, both its words and its structure cooperate. Anyone who wishes to push meaning into or pull meaning out of a law must be mindful of a law's structure. Any failure to respect the structure of a law generates inscrutable legalese and legal misunderstanding.
At the heart of A Unified Theory of a Law is a three by three grid called the Periodic Table of the Elements of a Law. Its nine cells capture everything that goes on under the surface of a Lawmaker's intellect during the process of making a law. Anyone of ordinary intelligence can learn the Periodic Table of the Elements of a Law. Once understood, it bestows the ability to understand any law as well as the greatest legal genius. How is this posssible? It is possible because there is nothing more to learn about a law aside from what appears in the Periodic Table of the Elements of a Law! The boundaries that define our knowledge of a law have been discovered, explored and mapped. They are now well understood. Beyond the boundaries is nothing. All knowledge about a law exists within a three by three grid. Outside the boundaries, as the mapmakers of old would say, there is nothing but dragons.
Instructor: John Bosco
Institution:
Monsignor Farrell High School
This collection contains:
Modules
by:
John Bosco.
