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The EU and the Chinese Communist government operate under the civil law tradition, which included Prussian Law and the Code Napoleon. It originates in Roman imperial law, which included the maxim "the emperor's will is law."
British and Hong Kong law are based on the English common law system, where more of the law has been based on judicial precedent than the more legislatively-centered civil law countries.
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The great dictators of the 20th century -- Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, Mao, Peron, Pinochet, Castro, Pol Pot, and Maduro among others -- all rose and thrived in the civil law system ultimately derived from imperial Rome.
The U.S. is a mostly common law jurisdiction, consistent with some Hong Kong protestors flying American flags. The Brexit & HK struggles are both efforts to, among other things, preserve & protect islands of the common law tradition from encroachments of the civil law system.
I’m not a legal scholar so I’m woefully ill informed, but what do you think about the Chinese Legalist tradition and its impact on imported legal practices into China? My sparse reading has been telling me that rehabilitation of Qin China has been a boon to CCP.
I don't know much about it but from what I gather Legalism and the pre-existing imperial system were both more consistent with civil law than with common law, resulting in the import of the former.
Thinking of this as a parallel to bitcoin, is it a stretch to say that common law requires more "work" to undo than civil law? That a change to common law requires "consensus" from past decisions "farther back on the chain" of precedents? Whereas civil is less work to change?
Yes but I suspect this distinction diminished in the 20th century when judges got more creative in concocting new law based on more creative analogies to dubious precedent.
actually learned that in my highschool Civics class.
Sounds like an unusually good civics class!
it was. i was a good student too.
The problem with common law these days is that so many judges are leftists who are more interested in 'social justice' than actual justice.
Interesting Nick like finance the over all law system have to be reconsidered!
I am in favor of abolishing prohibition on drugs like they did with alcohol at the time of Capone it would be a very good way to increased the respect 
of individual right and I think 
it could
Really help to reduced corruption money laundry 
and it could unclog the access of justice emptied prison Drug money is the nerve IMO of terrorist financements and with all that money we could really Invested in our infrastructure medical care education new energy and the
Exploration of space and anything that would be in the interest of the nation and the human species ! We did lose a lot of time over the years around that matter ! In Canada 
we did it with weed it s first step IMO ! The big money the big corruption is in Cocaine and heroine !
that's the saxon west-germanic tradition.
Although some aspects have been modified to some extent by statutes, Singapore law is also based on the English common law system :)
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