Issues and Concepts

You should understand the following:How do we determine whether something is customary enough to be considered $$customary law?$$

$1.$ What is the international law principle that we get from the case of UK v$.$ Norway, otherwise known as the Anglo$-$Norwegian Fisheries Case?

$2.$ What is the significance of the Nuremberg Trials with regard to the concept of international law?

$3.$ What are the two most prevalent and important systems of law in the world?

$4.$ What is the lex mercatoria?

$5.$ Which two national codes of Europe had the most widespread and lasting influence and are now seen as the basis of modern civil law?

$6.$ What are some differences between the French and German Civil Codes?

$7.$ What major world event happened in $1066$ and what does it have to do with the development of Common Law?

$8.$ What role did King Henry II of England play in the development of Common Law?

$9.$ How did the English Common Law system get spread around the world?

$10.$ Understand the conflict surrounding whether the United States should have a Common Law or a Civil Code system after independence.

$11.$ What is the adversarial process under Common Law?

$12.$ What is the inquisitorial process under Civil Law?

$13.$ How does legal education differ in Common Law and Civil Law systems?

$14.$ What is Islamic Law called?

$15.$ Understand how Sharia law can be interpreted in US courts.

$16.$ In the early $2000$s$,$ Oklahoma passed a law banning the use of Sharia law in Oklahoma courts. But this law was challenged and struck down. Why?

$17.$ What is the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act?

$18.$ What were some high$-$profile examples of corporate corruption that led to the passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act?

$19.$ How has the US been a leader in anti$-$corruption efforts?

$20.$ What is a grease payment?

$21.$ Understand how the process of containerization changed shipping.

$22.$ What are exceptions to free speech under US law?