Atlas Trail
Beyond the Anglo-American Shelf
Regulation and doctrine, read past the common-law cases that dominate most casebooks: an Islamic financial standard-setter, a Chinese data-protection statute, an Australian statute that wrote a High Court decision into the machinery of the state, a German civil-law doctrine and its Anglo-American absence, and a South African value that helped end capital punishment.
Stop 1 of 7.
Regulations
AAOIFI Shariah Standards: a private, member-funded body regulating Islamic finance worldwide, mandatory in two countries and voluntary almost everywhere else.
Stop 2 of 7.
Regulations
Personal Information Protection Law: China answer to GDPR, built by legislative codification in the civil law tradition rather than judicial precedent.
Stop 3 of 7.
Regulations
Native Title Act 1993: a common law statute that wrote an indigenous customary law system land rights directly into Australian federal machinery.
Stop 4 of 7.
Doctrines
Abuse of Rights: the civil law doctrine common law never quite built, itself split between French intent and German good faith.
Stop 5 of 7.
Doctrines
Rechtsstaat: Germany own answer to a state bound by law, with a separate administrative court system and a substantive, post-war reckoning the common law rule of law never had to have.
Stop 6 of 7.
Doctrines
Ubuntu Jurisprudence: an African communal-ethical value, given constitutional standing, that helped a brand-new court strike down the death penalty against majority preference.
Stop 7 of 7.
Landmark Cases
S v Makwanyane and Another: the case itself, eleven judges, eleven opinions, one unanimous result.
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