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No. 1/2025/73 (2025)

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Comparison of Euro-Atlantic Legal Cultures: Short debrief

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52097/eppism.9655  [Google Scholar]
Published: 2025-04-02

Abstract

The article compares the main features of Euro-Atlantic legal cultures: civil law (known also as continental legal culture or statutory law culture) and Anglo-Saxon common law. The analysis was conducted from the perspective of the continental culture. An
attempt has been made to capture the most important differences between these legal cultures. The fundamental question is: why did England, while being so close to European legal culture, ultimately move so far away from it? And neither the process of globalisation nor the process of cultural convergence has changed this. At the same time, however, these very phenomena determine the importance of the interaction of civil law and common law for almost every modern lawyer. Those who work in international business must therefore be familiar with the peculiarities of these two cultures that dominate the Euro-Atlantic legal space. The topic is also relevant for legal doctrine because of the aforementioned convergence, i.e. the mutual shaping of civil law and common law.

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