Principles Governing Legal Systems

Abstract

Legal systems are collections of laws that have similar, stable elements, such as the common law system, which is made up of the legal systems of England, the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and India, or the Roman-Germanic legal system, which is made up of the legal systems of France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, and others. Certain principles govern these legal systems in order to determine the number of legal systems and to clarify the reasons for their distribution.

The importance of examining the principles governing legal systems lies in the fact that it makes it clear to us why there are a certain number of legal systems in the world, and also clarifies the benefits of countries joining these systems. The purpose of examining this topic is to clarify the principles governing the world's legal systems and to clarify the differences in the distribution of the world's legal systems among jurists.

The nature of this writing and research requires the use of a bibliographical and analytical method, because the material on the principles governing legal systems is available in books. I used them to analyze this material and then translate it into my own language.

In this topic, I have come to the conclusion that there are four major legal families in the world, namely, the Islamic legal system, the Roman-Germanic legal system, the common law legal system, and the socialist legal system. And the principles governing these legal systems are: historical background, legal logic, specific legal foundations.