Download or read book Introduction to Foreign Legal Systems written by American Association of Law Libraries and published by New York : Oceana Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to legal systems. Chapters include: The common law from a civil lawyer's perspective, by Philippo Bruno; Comparative law: academic perspectives and practical legal realities, by Daniel L. Wade; Introduction to civil law systems, by George A. Zaphiriou; The French legal system, by Claire M. Germain; The Mexican legal system, by Rubens Medina; Introduction to Asian law systems, by James V. Feinerman; The Japanese legal system, by Sung Yoon Cho; The Chinese legal system, by Constance A. Johnson; The Republic of China (Taiwan) legal sytem, by Wendy I. Zeldin; Customary law and western legal influences in modern-day Africa (case studies from Ghana and Nigeria), by Victor Essien; Building a medium-to-large foreign law collection, by Daniel L. Wade; Acquiring foreign legal materials : focus on Europe, by Margareta Horiba; Acquiring material from difficult jurisdictions : Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, by Nicholas Thormer; Foreign law in translation : problems and sources, by Amber Lee Smith; Beyond books and libraries : providing foreign, comparative and international legal information in the 1990s and beyond, by M. Kathleen Price; International Legal Information Network (ILIN), by Rubens Medina; Library of Congress Class K for law, by Jolande E. Goldberg; LC classification in the USMARC format, by Rebecca S. Guenther; The Library of Congress legal bibliographic database on CD-ROM, by Elizabeth A. Leahy; Sources of assistance.