| ID: |
TARP-175 |
| Title: |
AMERICANIZATION OF LAW: RECEPTION OR CONVERGENCE? |
| Source: |
Colorado: Westview Press, page 137 |
| Parties: |
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| Dispute Resolution Organ: |
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| Year: |
1996 |
| Pages: |
0 |
| Author(s): |
L. M. Friedman, H. N. Scheiber, Wolfgang Wiegand |
| Keywords: |
European Union, United States, legal culture, Roman law, international arbitration, American Law |
| Abstract: |
European law and legal culture is based on the tradition of Roman law since the reception of Roman law in the eleventh century. Now in the 20th century a development has taken place that could be described as the reception of American Law in today’s Europe like the reception of Roman law in the Middle Ages in Europe. There is an Americanization of legal education. Universities change the examination system by giving out “credits”. They offer post-graduate studies that lead to an LL.M or M.C.L. and they become more competitive. The traditional size of German law firms was two or three lawyers. Now large law firms developed and they merge with each other. In international arbitration American models are more and more adopted, like pretrial discovery. Germany’s new bankruptcy code was strongly influenced by American ideas and conceptions (concept of reorganization or forgiveness of debt). In the Constitutional Court the publishing of dissenting opinions was introduced under the American influence. |
| Secured: |
False |
| Download Article: |
137_insgesamt.pdf |
Keywords: American Law, Europe/European Union, international arbitration, legal culture, Roman law, United States/USA
