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Power & Choice, 8/e
W. Phillips Shively, University of Minnesota---Minneapolis
Law and the Courts

Chapter Overview

This chapter defines law and introduces the concept of the legal system. The chapter then examines Anglo-Saxon case law and continental European code law (the two dominant systems in the world today), and the Sharia or Islamic law. The chapter then forwards the argument that in practice, case law and code law systems are converging to a certain extent and gives examples of how this is happening. The chapter then outlines the differences between various types of courts and ends with an examination of the developing legal systems in China and the European Union.








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