Civil Law

Dec 6, 2012

The Civil Law and Monistic Education Systems in Germany and Sweden

Filed Under: Alex Newman, Civil Law, Common Law, Edward Gibbon, Homeschooling

If anything illustrates the very real and palpable necessity for jurisdictional limitations in both common and civil law systems, it is in the area of education.

In our discussions of common law versus civil law, education affords some of the …

Dec 4, 2012

Common Law, Civil Law, and Jurisdictional Competition

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by Hans Eicholz / 0 Comments

Filed Under: Civil Law, Common Law, European Union, Federalism, Harold Berman, Jurisdictional Competition, Law and Revolution

This month’s Liberty Forum debate on the relationship between the inherited common law norms of liberty and our written Constitution also opens to a conversation on the comparison between civil law and common law and the degree to which each …