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OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Elitist legal judgements

Elitist legal judgements

  • Active judicial prejudice
  • Elitist justice

Nature

Justice serves only the the rich and influential who have any control over the structures of law when majority of people are not able to participate in articulating the need for new (and the revision of old) statutes to meet present-day needs.

Claim

The present legal system has a bias toward the rich and powerful - the people who have run the system for hundreds of years.

Broader

Legalized discrimination
Unpresentable
Inequality before the law
Unpresentable

Aggravates

Unequal property rights
Unpresentable

Value

Prejudice
Yet to rate
Maladministration
Yet to rate
Justice
Yet to rate
Injustice
Yet to rate
Inequality
Yet to rate
Illegality
Yet to rate
Elitism
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #16: Peace and Justice Strong Institutions

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(D) Detailed problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Law » Arbitration
  • Law » Judiciary
  • Law » Legality
  • Management » Administration
  • Society » Class, caste, elites
    • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    D0986
    DOCID
    11409860
    D7NID
    145062
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020