Overview
Description
Comprehensive review of Anglo-American, Continental and Socialist legal systems. Historical and current comparative civil and criminal substantive law (torts and contracts) and procedural differences.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- explain the similarities and differences among the common law, civil law, and Islamic law traditions, their origins and their influence on how judiciaries are structured and legal interpretation is practiced in different parts of the world.
- compare and contrast key features of the criminal law and of criminal procedure in major developed democracies, and identify important challenges for criminal justice systems in emerging democracies.
- compare and contrast the three major models of constitutional review in the contemporary world (the U.S. model, the European/Kelsenian model, and the Commonwealth model).
- apply concepts from comparative legal studies to the analysis of an independent research topic.