Reciprocity Between Law & Social Attitude - An Interstate Deliberation

Anuja Jalan, LLM (Business Laws) UGC-NET Qualified

ABSTRACT

This Paper aims at bringing out the Interrelationship between Law and Social Attitude. With the change in social norms and societal conditions in a country there are changes in the system of law too. But this is a matter of research as to how this relation affects the overall legal system of a sovereign state. Does the advancement in social outlook of people of a society result in a liberal legal regime or leads to more and more stringent laws? Laws governing acts of adultery for an instance has been categorized as an offence in some countries while in others, it is not. Some countries allow consumption and possession of few kinds of narcotic substances, and others at the same time penalize it. Few countries have legalized same sex marriage but not all the countries on the globe. This research paper revolves around the same kind of disparities. We will delve upon such disparities and eventually try to understand the factors which bring about these differences in the systems.

This paper does not look at the law in isolation but law as an instrument of change of societal conditions and vice versa. Eventually, we’ll be able to fill in the gap and have clarity as to the Indian scenario of people’s behavior and law. The prime concern of the researcher is to work out a workable model where both law and social attitude aide each other and we can design a better system suiting India.