The Future of Comparative Law: Towards A Sustainable Interaction of the Major World Legal Systems

Abstract

Comparative law is an alternative way to harmonize the interaction between different legal systems. The future of comparative law can be determined by its ability to function as a connecting method between those legal systems. This research focuses on the interaction between three major world legal systems; civil law, Islamic law and common law. It critically provides illustrations on the influence of these three major systems on each other. The research, however, briefly discusses different methods used by the comparative law to interconnect between those major systems, which are: legal transplant, harmonization of law, convergence and unification of law. Lastly, the research finds that the interaction among the major world legal systems is best understood through the concept of globalization which functions as a reality, a theory, and an ideology.