And then we come to the bit that always amazes foreigners about the American legal system.
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This threatens the idea of the equal right to justice, says Rebecca Love Kourlis of the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System.
The American legal system has traditionally been far more concerned with criminal acts than with the factors that make such acts more or less likely.
Barton, a law professor at the University of Tennessee, The Lawyer-Judge Bias in the American Legal System explains that the legal profession has self-serving tendencies.
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With 50 separate state governments and court hierarchies beneath the federal level, the American legal system is more complex than that of any other nation, and the country has, by far, more lawyers than any other.
While Lohan might not have a chance at persuading a judge or jury to take her side, Duane says that the American legal system gives plaintiffs an incentive to file lawsuits they know they can not win.
It is my hope that judges everywhere will continue to do this because...within the American legal system we're commanded to interpret our law in the best way we can, and that means looking to what other, anyone has said to see if it has persuasive value.
Within the current American legal system, this is an intractable problem.
This would not, in other words, be the stuff of toxic tort litigation in any legal system but the American one.
Perhaps these pundits should pause and think just how the British legal system would appear to the average American judges and lawyers in funny wigs indulging in an arcane ritual which is frequently incomprehensible to defendants and spectators.
We looked at Costa Rica and Panama first, but both countries speak Spanish as their national language and, as with most South American countries, the legal system was based on Napoleonic law.
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Creating a fair and equitable path to full legal status and citizenship for undocumented immigrants will enhance their prospects to participate fully in the American economic system, contributing to their communities through the work they do and providing jobs in turn as they spend the money they earn.
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The Argentine legal system, as revealed here, will make you grateful for the somewhat haphazard and inefficient American version.
The real problem, however, is Russia's economic and legal system, which involves contradictory elements of both American and German capitalism.
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