The World's Legal Systems

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Decks in this class (11)

Week 1 - Comparative law as a discipline
What does the term comparative la...,
What is the primary goal of compa...,
Judges use the method of analogic...
16  cards
Week 2 - Comparative legal research
Structuring a comparative legal r...,
Is structuring a comparative lega...,
What is the tertium comparationis 3
14  cards
Week 3 - Comparing judicial reasoning
Professor adams argues that one c...,
Familiarity of the language of th...,
According to oderkrik based on wh...
14  cards
Week 4 - Civil law
Civil law is along with common la...,
There is more to civil law than m...,
Civil law is often cited as statu...
42  cards
Week 5 - Common law
What are key characteristics of t...,
How do common law courts create l...,
How does the common law system de...
34  cards
Week 6 - South Asian legal culture
The south asian subcontinent was ...,
The subcontinent south asia has c...,
Shortly explain the constitutiona...
26  cards
Week 7 - African legal culture
African legal culture is influenc...,
How can a situation of legal plur...,
Legal pluralism is also seen in d...
26  cards
Week 8 - Law and religion in comparative perspective
What is secularism 1,
Secularism is in the dna of const...,
When classifying state and religi...
16  cards
Week 9 - Islamic legal systems
What is divine law 1,
When studying islamic law it is i...,
Of which two key elements is isla...
12  cards
Week 10 - “Asian” (Confucianism) legal culture
Why can t we see asia as one big ...,
Legal systems in asian countries ...,
What is the highest goal of confu...
13  cards
Week 11 - Latin American legal systems
What is nuevo constitucionalismo ...,
Scholars have identified several ...,
What role do indigenous legal tra...
22  cards

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