Legal systems of the world

Utopian texts caution society of its flaws through the portrayal of extreme ideals and values in an alternate world. This is inherent in Thomas More’s Utopia, which highlights idiosyncratic corruption and greed of 16th century England through contrast with an ideal egalitarian society. Utopia elucidates the idea of public ownership, using verisimilitude to speculate it as a more viable method of social organisation compared to private ownership in the Monarchy. Furthermore, the text questions…

reflect general norms that exist outside the contours of legal principles and logical generalizations of law itself. Law is considered to…

postclassical era is most often described by historians as the era during which networks of communication and exchange based on trade and human migration are more distinct, a more evident shift to monotheistic world religions exist, and a greater spread of “civilization” to additional regions of the world comes into play. It was around this time period when the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Caliphates would come into existence. The Byzantine Empire, whose name is derived from a modest market…

Neuroscience Will Bring to our Legal System It is no secret that technology is advancing at an extremely fast pace every day. Most people do not stop to think about the advancing of technology that invades an individual’s brain, thought processes, feelings, and beliefs, or even the fact that people could be convicted of a crime based solely on these new and still improving technologies. Today, neuroscience has not had much of an impact on our legal system, but Joshua Greene and…

and other capabilities acquired by man as a member of society.” Hofstede defined culture as “the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one human group from another.” Zvi Namenwirth and Robert Weber define culture as a system of ideas and argue that these ideas constitute a design for…

institutions to interact with each other; a French company that is headquartered in France operates in the U.S. and a German company operates in India. Actually, the international interaction of business units all over the world requires the implementation of international laws systems in order to protect businesses that operate abroad from local policies and regulations, especially in the developing countries, and host countries from taking advantage of their business immaturity from foreign…

Civil law, also known as code law, is the most widely used legal system. Its benchmarks include that it’s based off of abstract principles and that it is predictable. The basis of this legal system is the creation of regulations in order to establish a more uniform sense of right and wrong. One major distinction of this type of law is that its principles can only be enforced if they are written and communicated to its subjects. There is less interpretation of this type of law because it is more…

Therapeutic jurisprudence (hereafter TJ) is the study of the law as a therapeutic agent. TJ focuses on the law´s impact on emotional life and on psychological well-being. TJ humanize the law and the legal process with emotional aspects. TJ is a perspective that regards the law as a social force that creates behaviors and effects. These effects fall within the realm of TJ which goals is to give the law more value through justice and due process. The concept of therapeutic jurisprudence TJ is…

Thinking outside of the box is one of my personality traits. I grew up in Taiwan where with the abundant and diverse culture, as well as its legal system. Given the fusion of various legal systems in Taiwan, I was exposed to different countries’ legal knowledge, including German law, Japanese law, and America law. To facilitate my future study in the U.S., I also grasped the opportunity to accumulate my knowledge in American law during my university years. Several subjects of American law I…

relatively straightforward legal tradition in comparison to South Korea. According to the Basic Regulation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the nation cites its source of law as the Qur’an, and it legal tradition as Islamic shari’ah law (Vogel 3). Reichel explains that the Islamic legal tradition has two sources of law—the primary sources being the Quran and Sunnah (prophetic traditions) and a secondary sources being ijma (consensus regarding the ruling of a matter by legal scholars) and qiyas…