Legal Writing
University Of Wisconsin Law Faculty
For criticism, see Peter Birks’ poignant comments attached to a previous version of the Notice to Law Schools Archived 20 June 2009 on the Wayback Machine. Civil law jurisdictions recognise customized as “the opposite source of law”; hence, scholars tend to divide the civil law into the broad categories of “written law” or laws, and “unwritten law” (ius non-scriptum) or custom. Yet they tend to dismiss custom as being of slight importance compared to legislation (Georgiadis, General Principles of Civil Law, 19; Washofsky, Taking Precedent Seriously, 7). It additionally types the basis for the law codes of most nations of continental Europe and has played an important role in the creation of the thought of a standard European culture (Stein, Roman Law in European History, 2, 104–107). Environmental law is increasingly essential, especially in light of the Kyoto Protocol and the potential danger of climate …
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