Spanish Legal System: Between Statutory Legal Systems and Case Law

Antonio-Luis Martínez Pujalte

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The purpose of this article is to show that Spanish law is a paradigmatic example of the approach between traditional continental and Anglo-Saxon models of legal application. Two main factors have caused a deep transformation of Spanish legal system in the last decades: the position of Constitutional Court and its active role in legal creation, and the doctrine, which has been developed precisely by the Constitutional Court, on equality principle in the application of law. These changes show that the rigid traditional distinction among civil law and common law systems cannot be kept any more.


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Spanish legal system; statutory legal systems; case law

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/sil.2018.27.1.157
Date of publication: 2018-05-02 07:55:28
Date of submission: 2018-02-13 20:44:33


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