Essay on "Setting"

Quoted Instructions for "Setting" Assignment:

Please compose an essay setting with the background presented below to set forth the main tenets of the two major legal systems and explain which one you would select as the preferred forum for resolving legal disputes concerning your business, and why. This assignment is intended to demonstrate the basic understanding of legal system adopted in the United States by identifying its main tenets and comparing and contrasting those with the main tenets of the other major legal system. Feel free to hypothesize whatever scenarios you wish in order to complete the assignment. This may be especially helpful in helping illustrate the features, advantages, and disadvantages of the different systems.

Here is the background:

There are two great legal traditions in the world: the Anglo-American Common Law tradition, and the Romano-Germanic Civil Law tradition. (There are others, such as the traditional Shari'a in Islamic countries and so-called Soviet law in, e.g., the People's Republic of China, but for our purposes they are of little consequence.) The Anglo-American Common Law began in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066 and developed as a body of judge-made law; the Romano-Germanic Civil Law traces its roots to the Roman Empire (technically to the days of the East Roman Emperor Justinian in the sixth century A.D., but actually going back to the Twelve Tables of the fifth century B.C. Roman Republic). Today, the Anglo-American Common Law tradition operates - more or less - throughout the world in those countries that were formerly parts of the British Empire and Commonwealth, while the Romano-Germanic Civil Law tradition operates on the European continent, in Central and South America, and in some countries that were former colonies of European (but not British) nations. There are features peculiar to each and fundamental differences between the two.

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