Identify and explain the primary source of law for each of the four legal traditions
What will be an ideal response?
The primary source of law in the common legal tradition is custom, which refers to society’s entrenched vision of right and wrong, good and bad.
The primary source of law in the civil legal tradition is codification, which refers to both the writing down of laws and to the code’s revolutionary nature.
The primary source of law in the Islamic legal tradition is divine revelation as expressed in the Qur’an and Sunna.
The primary source of law in the Eastern Asia legal tradition is the principles of Confucianism, with particular reference to the concepts of li (moral virtue) and fa (formal justice).
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