Law by region - Topics

The 1960s independence wave and what it did to inherited law Why does customary law still run alongside statute in much of Africa? Which country's law governs a deal between two foreign firms? Doing business in a Gulf free zone: whose law applies? Nordic statutes and courts look nothing like the French model they are filed under The socialist family vanished from the textbooks but not from the institutions Why do identical disputes end differently in two neighborhoods? What did the oldest law codes regulate before Hammurabi? Mixed jurisdictions such as Scotland and South Africa borrow from both families and answer to neither Japan imported German civil doctrine and still settles most disputes outside court How much national law is left inside the EU? Mixed jurisdictions like Scotland and Louisiana: best of both or neither? Why do US states answer the same legal question so differently? Latin America shares a legal family yet diverges in practice: why? Do regional human rights courts protect rights better than the UN treaty bodies? Federal and unitary states hand the same criminal statute to very different authorities How much Soviet inheritance survives in China's civil code? Federal and unitary states: where do regional laws really come from? Why do former colonies still run on their former rulers' legal systems? How does sharia actually operate inside national legal systems? Customary law still governs land and marriage in places where the code says otherwise Working remotely across state lines raises the question of whose employment rules follow you home Where religious texts function as state law and where they function as custom Why does the same contract clause mean different things in Berlin and New York?