The contemporary civil law tradition
Subtitle: Europe, Latin America, and East Asia
By: John Henry Merryman, Nelson Bowman Sweitzer and Marie B. Sweitzer Professor of Law, Emeritus Affiliated Professor in the Department of Art, Emeritus, Stanford University; David S. Clark, Maynard and Bertha Wilson Professor of Law, Director, Certificate Program in International and Comparative Law, Willamette University; John Owen Haley, Professor of Law. Vanderbilt University. William R. Orthwein Distinguished Professor of Law, Emeritus. Washington University in Saint Louis. Affiliate Professor of Law. University of Washington (Seattle)
Contributors: Clark, David Scott, 1944- author; Haley, John Owen, author
Publisher: LexisNexis
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New Providence, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780820556765
Subjects: Civil law systems; Comparative law
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to comparative law and the civil law tradition; title: Legal structures of lawmaking; title: Administrative organization and law; title: Legal pluralism; title: Federalism and subnational legal systems; title: Courts, judges, and prosecutors; title: Constitutional courts and constitutional review; title: Judicial review of administrative acts; title: Legal education; title: The legal professions; title: The sources of law, its interpretation, and judicial precedent; title: Civil procedure; title: Criminal justice; title: Legal science and the private law codes; title: Substantive private law: property and contract; title: Epilogue : the future of the civil law tradition.