Civil Law vs Common Law

Both have pros and cons tbhwy

>>2053435
Literally textbook example of practicality vs theory

>>2053435
Common law pro: No matter what the legal scholars say, judges can make law at the behest of plaintiffs (ordinary people) in need and keep the system responsive even when the legislature is otherwise gridlocked by abstracted partisan navel gazing.

Common law con: So long as civil lawsuits require money to initiate, decisions will be dominated by the ills of wealthy clients and the solutions will trend toward benefiting them. The jury will always face a stacked deck.

Civil law pro: What the ministers pass is the law, little to no ambiguity or risk of extralegislative change.

Civil law con(sortof): If you can't afford to buy the ministers, you can't play. And elections likewise require an uphill struggle against entrenched capital to enact meaningful change.

Overall winner: Common law, by a nose.

>>2053435

Law student here.

Suspending all practical considerations for the moment, I find the Common Law tradition significantly more interesting in both a storytelling sense (there's some great cases) and in a detached philosophical sense (it aligns closer with my ideal virtue ethics world desu).

On a more practical note I think there's a ton of merit in the robust predictability of Civil Law codes.

I don't know why I'm studying law at all.

>>2053859
What about court interpretations contra legem that become common in practice?

I want to go to law school but I'm unsatisfied with my LSAT score. What's the best way to study in order to get it up?

>>2054703
I'm not an American, so i can't advise you on that.
How does it affect you?
Are you after a scholarship? Is it not good enough to enter the university of your choice?

Scots Law is best Law

>>2054736
I don't disagree.