from Part II - Legal Families and Geographical Comparisons
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 January 2024
This chapter outlines the workings of the common law. It starts out by providing a historical background to legal institutions, conceptual distinctions, pedagogy and literature constituting the common law tradition before going on to identify and discuss some of the core features of the common law’s method. The chapter also seeks identify factors causing convergences and divergences between the working of the law in many of the jurisdictions all over the world that tend to be classified as common law systems.
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