Assignment Task: Find examples of two different events that relate to law.
One from official news source (e.g. CBC; Toronto Star; Globe and Mail; BBC; The Guardian; Washington Post; The New York Times; Al Jazeera; Deutsche Well English; Reuters - NOT social media, blogs or personal opinion sites)
One from a fictional representation in a novel/book, feature film or series
For example, the event might an instance where a person or group has broken the law, is advocating for a law to be enforced, or is trying to change the law.
The two examples must one of three approaches: a natural law approach, a legal positivist approach, or a legal realist approach.
Identify how the author, the story, the representation of law illustrates a specific theory of law: natural law, legal positivism, or legal realism.
Summarize the article and fictional example
Identify which approach is the primary approach of each example.
Justify by defining that approach and explaining in what ways it is represented in the example.
Suggest how each of the other two approaches would have looked at the issue differently, with reference to your definition of those other, alternative approaches.
The examples may include elements of other approaches, but the main point of the example should be clearly identifiable as taking a natural law, legal positivist, or legal realist approach.