These are the three dominant judicial systems of the modern world. Which do you prefer? Or do you find an alternative judicial system preferable?
Personally I'm leaning towards civil law for two reasons:
1)Some states(Egypt and Iraq) have abandoned common law for civil law, whereas no countries have abandoned civil law for common law.
2)Non-Western countries that escaped European colonialism(Japan, China, Korea and Thailand) all chose to adopt civil law rather then common law(despite Britain+America having been the most prominent Westerners to these countries). The exception being those Islamic countries which sustained Sharia law.
Are Egypt and Iraq models to follow? And might not this move have to do with anti-British sentiment following liberalization rather than anything else?
As for the second point, I think there are specific reasons here. East Asia was generally quite influenced by Germany when it comes to legal systems, as I recall.
There is a fair bit of empirical research indicating that common law countries perform better economically and democratically, but of course such research always carries with it a lot of potential biases that might be hard to disentangle.
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