Sources of Anglo-American law Tereza Rašková Legal systems ¡Continental law system ¡Anglo-American law system ¡Islamic law Legal systems Anglo-American law system We distinguish two groups of sources: ¡Primary (principal) sources lStatutes (legislation) lCommon law lCase law ¡Secondary (subsidiary) sources lCustomes lBooks of authority Statutes (legislation) ¡also „black letter law“ ¡formal written enactments of a legislative authority of the country Statutes (legislation) Common law ¡rules which have been developed entirely by judicial decisions Common law Case law ¡also judge-made law ¡resulting from judicial decision and interpretation of legislation Primary sources common law legislation case law Customes & Books of authority ¡customes = established pattern of behavior ¡books of authority = law books, reference works, government publications, parliamentary debates (http://openlibrary.org/works/OL14997115W/The_Parliamentary_Debates) Supremacy of law ¡in the past: „not even king is above the law“ ¡now: checking acts of government agencies by highest court Summary ¡Sources lPrimary lSecondary ¡Today statutes are more important than rules of common law (solving new cases) ¡Supremacy of law Thank you for your attention! Sources ¡CHROMÁ, Marta. New Introduction to lefal English : Volume I. Reprint Fourth Edition. Praha : Nakladatelství Karolinum, 2005. 562 s. ISBN 80-246-0720-4 ¡Wikipedia [online]. 2010 [cit. 2010-10-07]. Wikipedia.com. Dostupné z WWW: . ¡Travel Planners [online]. 2010 [cit. 2010-10-07]. Gorgeous London. Dostupné z WWW: . ¡DailyMail [online]. 2008 [cit. 2010-10-07]. DailyMail. Dostupné z WWW: ¡Spiegel Online [online]. 2007 [cit. 2010-10-07]. Spiegel Online. Dostupné z WWW: .