International Law

Paper Summary:

This paper examines how there are four types of legal systems in existence in the modern world: civil law, common law, customary law, and religious law. It look at how all four types of legal systems have lengthy histories and share some common elements and how one can see the overlapping influence of different legal systems in each different type.

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Legal Systems
Transnational Crimes

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"Those countries associated with the common law are based on precedent and find their roots in English law. Common law systems give their judges the power to establish law and lower courts are required to follow those decisions. Therefore, the source of the law is custom and even in areas where there are no statutes there may be guiding laws. Legislatures continue to have the power and ability to make laws, but courts have the power to make law, not simply interpret it. More importantly, though the laws in common law countries have often been written and codified, it is the fact that judicial decisions initially formed those laws that separate common law countries from civil law countries. "

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