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Litigation and the Evolution of Legal Remedies*
2009AbstractThis chapter considers an often-overlooked ingredient of the creation of legal precedents and revisits the role of litigation in the evolution of judge-made law. It addresses one important observation made by Posner (2006), who observed that judicial opinions and emotions play a relevant role in case decisions — a subjectivity that may render ...
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The Evolution and Impact of Legal Dictionaries
Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 2004Abstract Lexicographers have had a profound impact on the development of legal systems in the English-speaking world. Since the time of John Rastell, legal dictionaries have not only defined key terms and concepts, but in many cases have also determined the very topics and issues that have come to dominate contemporary legal thinking. For these reasons,
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The evolution of western legal consciousness
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 1979There is a marked difference between the nature and structure of western law in both its civil and common law forms and the laws of non-western legal systems. Non-western societies have adopted, or are in the process of adopting western mathematics, science, and law. All three are abstract, theoretical, systematic, and universalizable.
J C, Smith, D N, Weisstub
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2022
Abstract This chapter gives an outline of the specific institutional mechanisms for the evolution of Roman private law in the Principate. Transactional ‘legal variants’ provided input to the legal system and had the potential of triggering legal change when they became the subject of litigation in the formula procedure.
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Abstract This chapter gives an outline of the specific institutional mechanisms for the evolution of Roman private law in the Principate. Transactional ‘legal variants’ provided input to the legal system and had the potential of triggering legal change when they became the subject of litigation in the formula procedure.
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Predictability and legal evolution
International Review of Law and Economics, 1997The change of legal rules is unavoidable, since the legal system must react to socioeconomic developments. Using the conclusions of the (imperfect) efficiency of the common law and a framework complementary to public choice theory, this essay considers a legal system's choice of whether its rules change rarely by large increments or frequently by small
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The Evolution of Legal Consciousness
2022Abstract This chapter traces the transformation of legal consciousness among the three families profiled as they evolve from apolitical citizens to prominent activists and advocates. By following the claim-making and mobilization trajectories of Nancy, Juan Carlos, and Lucia and Alfonso, we see their understandings of legality evolve ...
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Impact of Legal Culture and Legal Transplants on the Evolution of the U.S. Legal System
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010This article is based on the United States National Report to the 2010 International Congress of Comparative Law on Legal History and Ethnology: Legal Culture and Legal Transplant. It traces the United States experience in acceptance of legal transplants at critical times in the evolution of its legal systems.
Louis Del Duca, Alain Levasseur
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The evolution of a legal genre
2019This chapter provides a diachronic corpus-based analysis of a vitally important, yet currently very under-researched, legal genre: the patent specification. The empirical focus of the analysis is on changes in the rhetorical move structure of the patent specification genre over the first 150 years of its existence, as represented by a corpus of British
Nicholas Groom, Jack Grieve
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