Yale Law School
Johan The discipline arose partly out of a critique of trade unions and U.S. antitrust law. Banking law and financial regulation set minimum standards on the amounts of capital banks must…
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University of Michigan Law School
However, the system became overly systematised—overly rigid and inflexible. As a result, as time went on, increasing numbers of citizens petitioned the King to override the common law, and on…
University of Michigan Law School
Civil law is the legal system used in most countries around the world today. In civil law the sources recognised as authoritative are, primarily, legislation—especially codifications in constitutions or statutes…
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Japan was the first country to begin modernising its legal system along western lines, by importing parts of the French, but mostly the German Civil Code. This partly reflected Germany’s…
Yale Law School
McCoubrey and White said that the question “what is law?” has no simple answer. Glanville Williams said that the meaning of the word “law” depends on the context in which…
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Students pursuing Master in Law and LLM degrees enrich and diversify our course discussions, contributing to the Law School’s overarching mission to provide the finest and most comprehensive legal education…
Suffolk Law School
At first, jurists and legal philosophers were suspicious of sociology of law. Civil law jurisdictions treat contracts differently in a number of respects, with a more interventionist role for the…
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
The Old Testament dates back to 1280 BC and takes the form of moral imperatives as recommendations for a good society. The small Greek city-state, ancient Athens, from about the…
Yale Law School
It is used to control businesses who attempt to use their economic influence to distort market prices at the expense of consumer welfare. The G20 meetings are composed of representatives…
Suffolk Law School
Negative perceptions of “red tape” aside, public services such as schooling, health care, policing or public transport are considered a crucial state function making public bureaucratic action the locus of…