While it may be true that the English Common Law is quite different from Roman and Civilian law, it would be a mistake to describe it as anything other than a local variant of the classical tradition to which all three are a part. Rather than replicating whole cloth the doctrines of Roman law, or adopting a similar approach to the legal profession, the …
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