LLM 352 - Comparative Legal Systems (Section: LS1)

Description: This global approach to the study of legal systems in various parts of the world is designed to enable students to recognize and analyze legal problems that might confront lawyers dealing with matters involving application of foreign law. The course focuses on the fundamental historical, institutional, and procedural differences between the common law and the civil law systems, with an emphasis on the code systems of continental Europe, and on their use as models for law reform in developing countries. References are also made to legal systems based on religious principles or socialist legal principles.

Term: Fall Law School   Units: 3   Course Type(s): International Law, JD Elective, LLM International
Offered: Monday 1:15PM - 2:30PM , Wednesday 1:15PM - 2:30PM from August 17, 2009 through December 12, 2009
Location: San Francisco
Meeting room: Building: 536 Mission St., Room 2321
Instructor: Christian Okeke
Capacity/Available: 15/2
Status: Open — register online »
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Syllabus: None posted

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