The Legal Map of the World: Current Condition and Prospects

Student: Dobrotvorskiy Pavel

Supervisor: Ekaterina Sergeevna Tretyakova

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (Perm)

Educational Programme: Legal Support and Protection of Business (Master)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2016

The main borders of the world legal map miraculously coincide with the boundaries of world civilizations. "Western" legal orders extended their influence on a huge number of legal systems. Although now their influence is significant, it can not be considered absolute. "Non-Western" legal systems make extensive use of legal techniques and other legal mechanisms of the "Western" law, but at the same time they remain unique entities with their inherent cultural characteristics and traditions. At the moment, we see the formation of a multi-vector legal map of the world, which reflects national characteristics of legal systems constituting it.

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