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Major Legal Systems in the World Today

Comparative Law Reference, Rene David and John E.C. Brierley

Major Legal Systems in the World Today, by the French comparatist Rene David together with John E.C. Brierley, is a foundational work of comparative law scholarship, originally published in French in 1964, that groups the world legal systems into families, including the Romano-Germanic (civil law), common law, socialist and other systems, a classification this atlas's own five-way system taxonomy draws on and adapts.

Facts
Author
Rene David and John E.C. Brierley
Publisher
Stevens and Sons
Publication Year
1985
1985 is the publication year of the third English edition. The work was first published in French in 1964.
Source Type
comparative-law-reference
Sources
Major Legal Systems in the World Today
Rene David and John E.C. Brierley, Stevens and Sons, 1985
Claims Backed By This Source (108 claims)

This source backs 108 claims across the atlas. As facts: 27 well-attested, 5 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 67 holds. Plus 9 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Regulations, 50 claims: 50 holds.
  • Legal Systems, 25 claims: 13 well-attested, 5 scholarly debate, 7 general references.
  • Codes, 13 claims: 9 well-attested, 2 holds, 2 general references.
  • Doctrines, 7 claims: 7 holds.
  • Landmark Cases, 6 claims: 6 holds.
  • Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
  • Courts, 2 claims: 2 holds.

Well-attested

27

Codes

Corpus Juris CivilisNapoleonic Code

Legal Systems

Civil LawCommon LawHalakhaMixed SystemsReligious LawSharia

Sources

Major Legal Systems in the World Today

Scholarly debate

5

Legal Systems

Canon LawCivil LawCommon LawHalakhaSharia

Holds

67

Codes

Corpus Juris CivilisNapoleonic Code

Courts

Supreme Court of IndiaUnited States Supreme Court

Doctrines

Basic Structure DoctrineDue ProcessHabeas CorpusJudicial ReviewPrecedent (Stare Decisis)Presumption of Innocence

Landmark Cases

Brown v Board of EducationDonoghue v StevensonKesavananda Bharati v State of KeralaMabo v Queensland (No 2)Marbury v MadisonRoe v Wade

Regulations

Anti-Monopoly Law of the People's Republic of ChinaBundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG)California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VIIClayton Antitrust ActClean Air Act RegulationsClean Water ActCommunications Act of 1934Competition Act 1998 (UK)Consumer Product Safety ActData Privacy Act of 2012 (Philippines)Data Protection Act 2018 (UK)Digital Markets Act (EU)Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (India)Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection ActElectronic Communications Privacy ActEmployee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)ePrivacy DirectiveEU Merger RegulationEuropean Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR)Fair Credit Reporting ActFederal Act on Data Protection (Switzerland)Federal Trade Commission ActFreedom of Information Act (United States)General Data Protection Law (LGPD, Brazil)General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)Gramm-Leach-Bliley ActHealth Insurance Portability and Accountability ActIllinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)Loi Informatique et LibertésMarkets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II)Occupational Safety and Health Act

Showing 1 to 50 of 66 entities carrying this claim.

General References

9

Codes

Corpus Juris CivilisNapoleonic Code

Legal Systems

Canon LawCivil LawCommon LawHalakhaMixed SystemsReligious LawSharia
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