Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Conventionalism makes two postinterpretiN, claims.
The first is positive: that judges must respect t' e established legal conventions of their community excel in rare circumstances. It insists, in other words, tlw they must treat as law what convention stipulates c law. Since convention in Britain establishes that acts Parliament are law, a British judge must enforce eve: acts of Parliament he considers unfair or unwise. The positive part of conventionalism most plainly corn sponds to the popular slogan that judges should follo, the law and not make new law in its place. The secon, claim, which is at least equally important, is negative. declares that there is no law - no right flowing frou, past political decisions - apart from the law drawn fro those decisions by techniques that are the
conventionalism
A jurisprudential conception of legal practice and tradition holding that law is a matter of respecting and enforcing legal and social rules.