The division between civil and common law countries discussed in Chapter 3 is a major building block for mapping the world’s legal systems. In addition, a number of further categories have been suggested. Section A of this chapter discusses why scholars attempt to classify the world’s legal systems at all. Section B provides examples of how precisely this has been done in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The critical analysis of Section C challenges the usefulness of these classifications for comparative law, and Section D concludes.
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