Intro to Law Study Guide

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Numerical Comparative Law

An approach to comparative law that involves quantitative analysis, data, or numerical measures to evaluate and compare legal systems.

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Legal Transplants

The spreading of legal models from an exporting legal order to a receiving one.

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Examples of legal transplants

Roman Code, Napoleonic Code, and US Law Over Afghanistan & Iraq After 9/11.

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4

We tested whether or not:

Common Law and code law countries were better at fighting corruption

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Code of Chivalry

Calls for courtesy to the ladies, honor to those above your station, and combat as glory.

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Arbitration

The use of an arbitrator to settle a dispute.

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Mediation

Intervention in a dispute in order to resolve it; arbitration.

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Conciliation

The action of stopping someone from being angry; peacemaking.

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Good Offices

The help that they give to other people who are trying to achieve something.

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Components of a State

A defined territory, population, external sovereignty, and international diplomatic recognition.

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Common law and code law impositions on countries in what continent?

Africa.

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What happened when comic books were targeted as being linked to crime?

Comics regulated themselves

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We compared the U.S. Bill of Rights with that of which country?

Britain

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Where are there surprising "Companies" laws?

In China

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The factor we used to analyze Supreme Court justices' ideology

Voting Record

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