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Paolo Carozza
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Associate Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Law School, South Bend, Indiana. Co-author of Comparative Legal Traditions in a Nutshell and others.

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Mosaic portrait of Emperor Justinian I with a jeweled crown and halo, from the 6th-century Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy.
Civil law, the law of continental Europe, based on an admixture of Roman, Germanic, ecclesiastical, feudal, commercial, and customary law. European civil law has been adopted in much of Latin America as well as in parts of Asia and Africa and is to be distinguished from the common law of the…
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