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 term is commonly used to designate 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

China has: surprising "Companies" laws

The Code of Chivalry calls for: Courtesy to the Ladies, Honor all those above your station, Combat is 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

We tested whether or not: Common Law and code law countries were better at fighting corruption

A defined territory, population, external sovereignty, and international diplomatic recognition are all components to a: State

We looked at common law and code law impositions on countries in what continent?

Africa

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

Britain

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

Comics regulated themselves

We looked at Supreme Court justices' ideology using what factor?

Voting Record