The Civil Law’s Common Law
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.54148/ELTELJ.2026.1.63Keywords:
common law, civil law, customary law, sources of the law, binding precedents, methodology, comparative law, culpa in contrahendoAbstract
Continental legicentrism can no longer convincingly explain the growing importance of precedent. Today’s Civil Law systems need to modernise their understanding of what counts as a source of law. They, too, need the notion of common law.
