SOCL 4471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Law Of The Soviet Union, Procedural Justice, State Ownership
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For test 2: 57-64, 80-83, 386-416, don"t memorize islamic law. All fill in the blank and multiple choice. Israeli system is theocratic but they have a system of checks and balances so it"s a little differe(cid:374)t. Islamic law: structurally, it is very different from other legal traditions. Islamic law is organized around theocratic ideas meaning that the law is religious in nature. So, law is written but not 100% by a legislative: sour(cid:272)ed fro(cid:373) qur"a(cid:374) a(cid:374)d hadith, we have a hybrid inquisitorial/ adversarial system very similar to the. Chinese system: no use of juries and no precedent. It depends on what the civil code or law is at that point: chinese and socialist law systems, socialist law, functioned as a civil system, precedent not recognized, no judiciary. Lawyers ensure procedural justice, but are short in supply: quasi jury system, quasi jury system made up of juries chosen from people registered to be jurors.
