World Legal Systems Overview (Upper and Lower) -- Translation Series of World Legal Classics

Author: (American) Wigmore, translated by He Qinhua and others
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Publishing Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book provides a macroscopic description of the evolution of world legal systems and organizes and summarizes the development of jurisprudence. As human civilization has evolved, there are thousands of ethnic groups and tribes, yet the world's legal systems are roughly divided into 16 types, including: the Egyptian legal system, the Mesopotamian legal system, the Hebrew legal system, the Chinese legal system, the Indian legal system, the Greek legal system, the Roman legal system, the maritime legal system, the Japanese legal system, the Islamic legal system, the Celtic legal system, the German legal system, the Slavic legal system, the ecclesiastical legal system, the civil legal system, and the common law system. Each legal system's lineage is inseparable from the unique customs and laws of its respective race and society. As society develops, these legal systems may perish, transform, survive, or merge. Their different "fates" reflect the historical origins of the respective ethnic groups.