Western law

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For the law school at the University of Western Ontario, see University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law.

Western law comprises the

Graeco-Roman Classical and Renaissance
cultural influence, so do its legal systems.

History

The rediscovery of the

Catholic or Frankish west that Roman law became the foundation of all legal concepts and systems. Its influence can be traced to this day in all Western legal systems, although differing in kind and degree between the common (Anglo-American) and the civil
(continental European) legal traditions.

The study of

equality of women, procedural justice, and democracy as the ideal form of society formed the basis of modern Western culture. [citation needed
]

Western legal culture

Western culture, sometimes equated with Western civilization, Western lifestyle or European civilization, is a term used very broadly to a heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, and specific artifacts and technologies that have some origin or association with Europe.

Western

contracts, estates, rights and powers to name a few. These concepts are not only nonexistent in primitive or traditional legal systems but they can also be predominantly incapable of expression in those language systems[clarify][neutrality is disputed] which form the basis of such legal cultures.[7]

As a general proposition, the concept of legal culture depends on

symbols and any attempt to analyse non western legal systems in terms of categories of modern western law can result in distortion attributable to differences in language.[7]
So while legal constructs are unique to classical Roman, modern civil and common law cultures, legal concepts or primitive and archaic law get their meaning from sensed experience based on facts as opposed to theory or abstract. Legal culture therefore in the former group is influenced by academics, learned members of the profession and historically, philosophers. The latter group's culture is harnessed by beliefs, values and religion at a foundation level.

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References

  1. ISBN 9780415072502
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  2. ^ Berman, Harold J. Law and Revolution, pp. 86, 115.
  3. ^ Raymond Wacks, Law: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Ed. (Oxford University Press, 2015) p. 13.
  4. ^ Berman, Harold J. Law and Revolution, pg. 86 & pg. 115
  5. Dr. Edward N. Peters, CanonLaw.info Home Page
    , accessed June-11-2013
  6. ^ Raymond Wacks, Law: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Ed. (Oxford University Press, 2015) pg. 13.
  7. ^ a b J.C. Smith (1968) 'The Unique Nature of the Concepts of Western Law' The Canadian Bar Review (46: 2 pp. 191-225) in Csaba Varga (ed) (1992) Comparative Legal Cultures (Dartmouth: England).
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