The Civil Law Tradition: An Introduction to the Legal Systems of Western Europe and Latin America 2nd ed

Subjects:

Comparative Law

Contents:

1. Three legal traditions

2. Roman civil law, canon law, and commercial law

3. The Revolution

4. The Sources of law

5. Codes and codification

6. Judges

7. The interpretation of statutes

8. Certainty and equity

9. Scholars

10. Legal science

11. The general part

12. The legal process

13. The division of jurisdiction

14. Legal categories

15. The legal professions

16. Civil procedure

17. Criminal procedure

18. Public law

19. Perspectives

20. The future of the civil law tradition.

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Designed for the general reader, this is a concise history and analysis of the civil law tradition, which is dominant in most of Western Europe, all of Latin America, and many parts of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The second edition describes changes in civil law procedures since the book was first published in 1969, and includes a new chapter on the future of the civil law tradition.