Law Definition & Meaning
The current legal infrastructure in the People’s Republic of China was heavily influenced by Soviet Socialist law, which essentially inflates administrative law at the expense of private law rights. Due to rapid industrialisation, today China is undergoing a process of reform, at least in terms of economic, if not social and political, rights. A new contract code in 1999 represented a move away from administrative domination. Furthermore, after negotiations lasting fifteen years, in 2001 China joined the World Trade Organization.
- The Catholic Church has the oldest continuously functioning legal system in the western world, predating the evolution of modern European civil law and common law systems.
- In 1297, for instance, while the highest court in France had fifty-one judges, the English Court of Common Pleas had five.
- The Treaty of Lisbon makes the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union legally binding in all member states except Poland and