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Shaked Koplewitz's avatar

This is interesting, it's the first time I've seen a good argument for why common law might be preferable to civil law.

It also works with the observation that civil law countries are better at building physical infrastructure - if civil law is for policy implementation, it makes sense that it'd correlate with better government ability to implement policy and build things.

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Tom Spencer's avatar

Thanks Shaked! I think I agree in the short-run and that's a major motivation behind people adopting civil law systems (where it's been up to them and not forced upon them). However, having judges focussed more on being an organ of government implementation rather than focussing purely on interpreting the law comes with its own problems (ie legitimacy).

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