Legal Systems Very Different From Ours Draft



Introduction



I: Gypsy Law



II: The Amish



III: Jewish Law



IV: Islamic Law

V: Embedded and Polylegal Systems



VI: When God is the Legislator



VII: " Private Creation and Enforcement of Law " [Article to be turned into a chapter]



VIII: Somali Law



IX: Making Sense of English Law Enforcement in the Eighteenth Century [Article to be turned into a chapter]



X: Athenian Law: The Work of a Mad Economist



XI: Puzzles of Irish Law



XII: Enforcing Rules

XIII: Incentive to Enforce

XIV: Chinese Law



XV: Plains Indian Law



XVI: Making Law

XVII: Guarding the Guardians.



This book draft is webbed for comments: ddfr@daviddfriedman.com



As you can see, the present organization mixes chapters on legal systems with thread chapters (boldfaced above), chapters discussing issues that run through multiple legal systems. I have tried to arrange things so that each thread chapter comes after the system chapters to which it is most relevant.



I would be interested in hearing, from anyone who has read through the draft, whether he thinks it would work better if arranged as all of the system chapters followed by all of the thread chapters.















