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Lynch, Patrick D. – 1981
A discussion of the two legal traditions illuminates this comparison of student rights in common and civil law nations. The United States is among a minority of nations that use common law, a complex system cluttered with processes difficult to explain and loaded with protections for defendents in both criminal and civil cases. In American common…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Comparative Analysis, Constitutional Law
