A recent judgment from a court of appeal in Spain shows that the outcome of coverage disputes over COVID-19 business interruption losses in civil law ...

T he legal system that operates in the United Arab Emirates (uae)—like that in many countries across the Gulf—is a blend of French civil and Islamic Sharia law.But this summer Dubai announced ...

Civil codes are important in civil-law countries like China, where courts settle private disputes by applying codified statutes, rather than relying on precedents from previous cases the way ...

Similar procedures apply in other countries with official state churches, such as predominantly Lutheran Finland and Denmark, where religious marriages are recognized by the state if civil law ...