As part of the formal cooperative relationship between Case Western Reserve University School of Law and the Saudi Board of Grievances, the administrative branch of the judicial system of the Kingdom ...

Ms. Anna Williams quotes some interesting observations from noted scholars in her recent post on “The Common Law and the Constitution.” Yet an important counter-point from Justice Scalia’s 1998 essay ...

What are the real differences between common and civil law systems? Probably not the ones lawyers typically think about, said Harvard Law School Professor Holger Spamann S.J.D. ’09 last week. To ...

The common law is said to grow case-by-case while preserving overall coherence. We test this claim with the citation network of all U.S. federal opinions published from 1790–2024 (760,000 cases, 8.3 ...

Is forty years too far along for a book review? Another look at A Common Law for the Age of Statutes by eminent Second Circuit Judge and Yale Law professor Guido Calabresi suggests no. Published in ...

The legal system that operates in the United Arab Emirates (uae)—like that in many countries across the Gulf—is a blend of French civil and Islamic Sharia law. But this summer Dubai announced that it ...

Legal systems constitute the frameworks through which states organise law-making, interpretation and enforcement. They encompass codified civil-law traditions, which draw on comprehensive statutes and ...

Six years on, the crisis in the Anglophone (English-speaking) regions of Cameroon continues. Recent reports indicate that over 6,000 people have been killed. A further 600,000 have been internally ...