Three Legal Systems

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This paper discusses three major legal systems. The legal systems discussed are: The Common Law system, the Civil Law system and the Islamic Law system based on Shari'ah. The Common Law system is discussed in relation to the United States and England while the Civil Law system is discussed in relation to the European continent. Finally, Islamic Law is discussed primarily in terms of its application throughout Islam.

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"The nature of law has been a hotly contested subject ever since Hammurabi first had his code carved in stone circa 1775 B.C. (Deffains & Kirat, 2001, p.19). Since then, law has been subjected to myriad interpretive analysis, written, rewritten and canonized in various ways: Islamic Law associated with Shari'ah, the Common Law of England and the United States and the Civil Law structures found across most of Europe. The only common dialectical thread through all these historical bodies of law and legal systems, both current and past, is that law is not an exact science."

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