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Charting the divide between common and civil law Thomas Lundmark
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lundmark, Thomas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comparative law.
- Common law.
- Civil law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford New York Oxford University Press [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 5. Judges and Judiciaries; A. Historical Development; B. Court Structure; C. The Selection, Training, and Tasks of Judges; Summary; 6. Lay Judges and Juries; A. Historical Development; B. Selection and Training; C. Justifications for Lay Judges and Juries; Summary; PART THREE: Legal Rules; 7. Legal Reasoning; A. Law, Rules, Norms, Making Law, and Finding Law; B. Four Steps in Making and Applying the Law; C. The Thinking Processes in Making Law; D. Logic and Legal Reasoning; E. Mischaracterizations of Common Law Reasoning; Summary; 8. Statutes and their Construction
- What does it mean when civil lawyers and common lawyers think differently? In Charting the Divide between Common and Civil Law, Thomas Lundmark provides a comprehensive introduction to the uses, purposes, and approaches to studying civil and common law in a comparative legal framework. Superbly organized and exhaustively written, this volume covers the jurisdictions of Germany, Sweden, England and Wales, and the United States, and includes a discussion of each country's legal issues, structure, and their general rules. Professor Lundmark also explores the discipline of comparative legal studie
- Contents:
- Introduction The discipline of comparative law Comparative legal linguistics Comparative jurisprudence Lawyers Judges and judiciaries Lay judges and juries Legal reasoning Statutes and their construction Judicial precedents
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-453) and index
- Print version record
- Other Format:
- Print version Lundmark, Thomas. Charting the divide between common and civil law
- ISBN:
- 9780199876365
- 0199876363
- 1299940269
- 9781299940260
- 9780190259914
- 0190259914
- OCLC:
- 859536569
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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