Comparative legal traditions in a nutshell /
"This nutshell offers a general introduction to comparative law that includes both an overview of the methods of comparative law as well as of the two most widespread legal traditions in the world: civil (or Romano-Germanic) law and common law. For both legal traditions, this expert discussion...
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| Language: | English |
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St. Paul, MN :
West Academic Publishing,
[2016]
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| Edition: | Fourth edition |
| Series: | Nutshell series
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the comparative study of law:
- Part 1. The civil law tradition: History, culture and distribution
- Legal structures in civil law nations
- Legal actors in the civil law tradition-- Procedure in civil law systems
- Fields of substantive law in civil law systems
- Sources of law and the judicial process in civil law systems
- Part 2. The common law tradition: History, culture and distribution
- Legal structures
- Roles and actors
- Procedure
- Rules