Chapter 1 Introduction to Law and Legal Systems

Professor Siedel was a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and Harvard University, a Visiting Scholar at Berkeley, and a Parsons Fellow on the University of Sydney. He has been elected a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University’s Wolfson College and a Life Fellow of the Michigan State Bar Foundation. As a Fulbright Scholar in Eastern Europe, he held a Distinguished Chair within the Humanities and Social Sciences. The creator of quite a few books and articles, Professor Siedel is the recipient of analysis awards from the University of Michigan (the Faculty Recognition Award) and the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (the Hoeber Award, the Ralph Bunche Award and the Maurer Award). The Center for International Business Education and Research chosen a case written by Professor Siedel for its annual International Case Writing Award.

Gary is lively in the New York City Bar Association serving as a member of the Criminal Courts Committee and because the Chair of the Small Law Firm Committee. George J. Siedel accomplished graduate studies on the University of Michigan and Cambridge University. Following commencement from legislation faculty, he worked as an legal professional in knowledgeable company before joining the faculty at the University of Michigan. Professor Siedel has been admitted to follow earlier than the United States Supreme Court and in Michigan, Ohio, and Florida. He has additionally served on a number of boards of administrators and as Associate Dean of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Gary Kaufman has been practicing within the space of Criminal Defense since graduating from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2006. Gary spent his first seven years of follow working as a public protection attorney in Orlando, Florida, Staten Island, New York, and at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem in Manhattan. In 2013, Gary started the Law Office of Gary Kaufman, PLLC, where he represents shoppers going through all kinds of criminal costs within the state and federal courts of New York and New Jersey. Gary also represents college students facing discipline at the highschool and collegiate levels.

Modern civil legislation methods basically derive from legal codes issued by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in the 6th century, which were rediscovered by eleventh century Italy. Roman regulation within the days of the Roman Republic and Empire was closely procedural, and lacked knowledgeable authorized class. Decisions were not revealed in any systematic way, so any case regulation that developed was disguised and virtually unrecognised. Each case was to be decided afresh from the laws of the State, which mirrors the (theoretical) unimportance of judges’ choices for future circumstances in civil law methods at present. From 529–534 AD the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I codified and consolidated Roman regulation up till that point, so that what remained was one-twentieth of the mass of authorized texts from earlier than.

I based Qualitas, an early authorized process outsourcing firm (LPO), after which co-founded and managed Clearspire, a groundbreaking ‘two-company mannequin’ law firm and repair firm. Presently, I seek the advice of with authorized service suppliers–company departments, companies, and regulation companies–on new supply models and authorized buyer options. I also work with law companies around the globe to bridge the gap between traditional legal education and ‘modern abilities’ required by the marketplace. This includes aligning law colleges with suppliers to supply ‘actual life’ experience for students and to higher position them for his or her careers.

In civil law the sources recognised as authoritative are, primarily, legislation–especially codifications in constitutions or statutes handed by authorities–and customized. Codifications date again millennia, with one early example being the Babylonian Codex Hammurabi.

As one legal historian wrote, “Justinian consciously seemed back to the golden age of Roman legislation and aimed to revive it to the height it had reached three centuries earlier than.” The Justinian Code remained in pressure in the East till the autumn of the Byzantine Empire. Western Europe, in the meantime, relied on a mixture of the Theodosian Code and Germanic customary regulation until the Justinian Code was rediscovered within the eleventh century, and students on the University of Bologna used it to interpret their own legal guidelines.

Both these codes influenced closely not only the law systems of the nations in continental Europe (e.g. Greece), but in addition the Japanese and Korean legal traditions. Today, international locations which have civil legislation methods vary from Russia and Turkey to most of Central and Latin America. I am the CEO of Legal Mosaic, a legal enterprise consultancy; speaker; writer; and Distinguished Fellow at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. I was lately appointed by the Singapore Academy of Law to function their inaugural LIFTED Catalyst-in-Residence. I pivoted from the representation of purchasers to ‘the business of regulation’ approximately fifteen years in the past.

He has also acquired many teaching awards, together with the 2014 Executive Program Professor of the Year Award from a consortium of thirty-six main universities dedicated to international training. Recently, anthropologists have come to understand the degree to which African and other consensual authorized techniques are themselves partly the outgrowth of colonial expertise and of the distribution of energy in society (Starr and Collier 1989). This observation underlines a more basic level that has been noted by macro and micro scholars alike. Nearly all existing legal systems are, to a larger or lesser extent, externally imposed, and subsequently all legal techniques are layered (Watson 1974).

Gary has tried dozens of cases and is a talented advocate each out and in of the courtroom. Gary has obtained coaching on the National Criminal Defense College and has taught Continuing Legal Education courses on New York Criminal Law Practice one hundred and one, Arraignment Advocacy, Drunk Driving Defense, Grand Jury Practice, and Judicial Diversion for Narcotics Felonies. Gary has been acknowledged as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers and a top 40 underneath 40 Criminal Defense Attorney in New York by the National Trial Lawyers.