Intro to Law Study Guide

Numerical Comparative Law

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

Legal Transplants

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

Examples of legal transplants

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

We tested whether or not:

Common Law and code law countries were better at fighting corruption

Code of Chivalry

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

Arbitration

The use of an arbitrator to settle a dispute.

Mediation

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

Conciliation

The action of stopping someone from being angry; peacemaking.

Good Offices

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

Components of a State

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

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

Africa.

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

Comics regulated themselves

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

Britain

Where are there surprising "Companies" laws?

In China

The factor we used to analyze Supreme Court justices' ideology

Voting Record