Culture and Predictability of Law

This book aims to identify the sociological reasons that resulted in the perceived lack of authority of precedents in civil law systems, starting from the premise that common law systems rely on precedents, while civil law systems do not. The reasoning is based on the sociology of law, mainly on Max Weber’s theory, legal theory, and constitutional law. English common law, seen by Weber as a law devoid of formal rationality mainly because it does not allow for generalization and comprehensiveness